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LITTLE FOLKS 

From 


SPOTLESS TOWN 


By Laura Rountree Smith 



Illustrated by 

Mildred Lyon and Marguerite Jones 
With Cover Drawing by 
Milo Winter 


CHICAGO 


Albert Whitman & Company 
Publishers 


U. S. A. 









Copyright 1923, 1924, 1928 
By Albert Whitman & Company 



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A Just Right Book 
Made in the U. S. A. 









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in Appreciation 

This Book is Inscribed | 

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J. ETHEL WOOSTER 1 

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FOREWORD 

The Rosy-Face Twins from Spotless Town through 
story and verse bring the children many health sugges¬ 
tions, making it seem a pleasant game to have clean teeth, 
breathe fresh air, and eat proper food. 

The little stories are so easy and direct, that the smallest 
child can understand them. 

Safety First, Fighting Germs, Proper Exercise and 
Good Health Habits are some of the things emphasized. 

This little book is like adventure stories. Just the kind 
the children will love to read, and aid them to follow 
the principles of Good Health. 

A practical and valuable book for parents, teachers and 
story tellers. 



Contents; 

BOOK ONE 

Page 


Sweet and Clean Days. 9 

The Toothbrush Song. 23 

The Eat and Drink Times. 33 

The Exercise Party. 46 

The Tick-Tock Song . 57 

The Slogan Party .102 

The Good Health Song 


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Contents 

BOOK TWO 

Page 

Teddy and Tilly. 11 

Jolly Errands . 25 

Golden Plans. 38 

Garden Days . 49 

The Health Games. 61 

The Picnic Clothes. 72 

The Bright Fire. 81 

The Light Fairy. 91 

All Things .102 

The Merry Company.112 












































The Tivins washed their face and 
neck and ears every morning 


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THE ROSY - FACE TWINS 


You surely want to be sweet and clean 



SWEET AND CLEAN DAYS 

In Spotless Town not very far away 
there lived George and Helen, the Rosy- 
Face Twins, who each had a pretty pair of 
magic shoes. Mother Nature when she 
gave the Twins these magic shoes said: 










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“The Rosy-Face Twins from Spotless Town, 
Always like a clean suit and spotless gown, 
They always smile instead of frown, 

And always help others in Spotless Town.” 

Many times the Rosy-Face Twins heard 
some children who were called in from 
play, to take their baths say, that they did 
not like to have them. 

The Twins said, 

“We think it fun to rub and scrub, 

We like to get in the big bath tub.” 

They heard Mary’s mother say, 

“The children coax to stay out and play. 

They don’t like to bathe by night or day, 

They say, ‘Oh Mother, it is so late, 

Don’t you think this once the bath can wait? 
The water’s too cold or else too hot. 

Soon we will be crying like as not, 




SWEET AND CLEAN DAYS 


11 


The soap is funny, it acts so queer, 

It stings our eyes and tickles our ears, 

We are sure we would be happy quite, 

Except for the bath on Bath time night.’ ” 

Whenever the Twins wore their magic 
shoes they could see many good things to 
do. So this time they put on their magic 
shoes and went out to help the good 
mothers on Bathing night. 

They peeped into Mary’s room first and 
said, 

“We see some tears, what do you mean? 

You surely want to be sweet and CLEAN!” 

They told all the children they met on 
bathtime night that they took a bath all 
over twice a week and that they really 
loved warm water and soap-suds. They 
said too, that they washed their face, and 




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neck and ears every morning, and as for 
washing their hands they never counted 
how many times a day they did that. 

They remarked, “We should always re¬ 
member to wash our hands before eating.” 

Mary soon became good natured and 
coaxed the Twins to stay, they looked so 
nice, and though they were boy and girl, 
they always wore things to match as much 
as possible. 

George said that they could not stay 
with Mary, they must hurry on. 

Helen said, 

“To be useful we always mean, 

We must teach other children to be clean.” 

Next, they peeped into Little Ann’s 
room and found her scolding because she 




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did not like to take a bath when she was 
tired from play on bathtime night. 

Helen told her about a poor little girl 
who had no tub to bathe in, and who liked 
to bathe so well that she used a wash tub, 
and heated two buckets of water every 
Bathtime night so she could take a bath 
all over. 

Little Ann was surprised for her bath 
was always ready for her in a clean white 
tub. 

The Twins next visited Jack and Tom 
and many other children and explained to 
them the reason that they were so lively 
and rosy was because they took regular 
baths and observed all Health Rules, and 
formed Good Health Habits. They ex¬ 
plained that we breathe through the pores 




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of our skin as well as through our mouths, 
and regular bathing helps to keep the 
pores open. 

The children were glad to learn these 
things except Little Stubborn. He said he 
did not like soap and water at all. 

George then told them that even a little 
dog would have an unpleasant smell if he 
was not bathed often, and how bad it 
would be for a child to carry about an un¬ 
pleasant odor. 

Little Stubborn had never thought 
about that and he began to undress in a 
hurry to take his bath. 

Little Sunshine they found washing her 
hair and drying it in the sunshine, they 
said it was a fine thing to keep the hair 
clean by frequent washing, and they 





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ROSY-FACE TWINS 


hoped every boy and girl had his own 
brush and comb. 

Little Heedless Hattie was very careless 
they saw, about her finger nails, and 
though the Twins reminded her many 
times to clean them, there were still days 
when she forgot. So at last they thought 
of a plan to help her. 

They drew a picture, as anyone could 
do, of a spread out hand, by drawing 
around their own hand. 

Each finger-nail became a fairy, 

And said in a voice so light and airy, 

“You’ll keep us clean without a doubt, 

For the Rosy Face Twins found you out! 
Here’s the best story we’ve ever seen, 

We hope it will help you to keep us clean.” 

Even after this Little Heedless Hattie 





Little Sunshine washing her hair and drying it in the sunshine 


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forgot to keep clean, shining finger nails, 
so the Rosy-Face Twins wrote on each 
finger on the drawing of the hand they 
made, and they also wrote a little verse 
on the thumb. 

On the thumb they wrote, 

The Jolly Twins say, “Do not fail, 

To clean each day your big thumb nail.” 

On the first finger they wrote, 

The Jolly Twins add to the tale, 

“Will you try to clean your first finger nail?” 

On the middle finger they wrote, 

The Jolly Twins said, “We will linger 

And clean the nail on your middle finger.” 

On the ring finger they wrote, 

The Jolly Twins said, “O’er hill and dale 

Goes your ring finger with its shining nail.” 




SWEET AND CLEAN DAYS 


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They thought that their verses had all 
given out by the time they came to the 
little finger, but at last they thought of 
these lines, 

“Rosy-Face Twins advice is not for sale, 

How’s your dear little, queer little-finger nail?” 

They hung the picture of the hand with 
the verses upon it, up on the wall and 
Little Heedless Hattie learned them all by 
heart and her friends learned them, too. 
Soon the children in that town had the 
cleanest finger nails in the world! 

The Rosy-Face Twins were so busy they 
said, 

“To be very helpful we always mean. 

And bear this motto, BE CLEAN, BE CLEAN.” 

They had so many children to talk to, 




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and so little time, that Mother Nature said 
they might wear their magic shoes often, 
so every Bathtime night for weeks and 
weeks they visited many children, and 
taught them to really want to have clean 
bodies, and clean hair, and clean finger 
nails. 

They even said as a little joke, 

“You had a pleasant rub and scrub, 

Do you ever remember to clean the tub?” 

They said that a clean bath tub looked 
so well and was always ready for some one 
else. 

The Rosy Face Twins said, “We suppose, 

You always like to wear clean clothes.” 

The children laughed at the little 




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“You had a pleasant rub and scrub. 

Do you ever remember to clean the tub?” 


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ROSY-FACE TWINS 


rhymes but learned a great many lessons 
of cleanliness in that way and; 

Many smiles are now in sight, 

At the bath hour on Bathtime night. 

Children everywhere loved the Rosy- 
Face Twins for they were so clean and 
healthy, and they were always so lively. 

The Twins were coaxed to visit again, 
which they promised to do, remarking, 

“We are jolly Twins, we are just thirteen, 
Remember, we want to help you be clean.” 





Slowly eat our food 


THE TOOTHBRUSH SONG 

The Rosy-Face Twins woke up early 
next day and they said, 

“All careless children we wish to aid, 

Should join our big Toothbrush Brigade.” 

Mother Nature said, 

“If you visit school to-day, 

Children can hear what you say.” 

She meant there were always so many 


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children in school that the Twins could 
send their message far and wide, for what 
one child knows, he tells another. 

The Rosy-Face Twins went to visit 
school and all the children clapped their 
hands as they came into the room. The 
Twins said, speaking exactly together, 

“Tell us how many times a day, 

Do you brush your teeth, tell us pray?” 

Now, in that school room some children 
brushed their teeth only once a day, and 
some children did not even brush them 
that often. These children did not have 
nice, white teeth and their breath was un¬ 
pleasant and many of them had tooth¬ 
ache. 




THE TOOTHBRUSH SONG 


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George said, in a strong voice, 

“Every morning when you rise, 

You’ll brush your teeth if you are wise.” 

Helen said, 

“It makes no difference how you feel, 

Brush your teeth after every meal.” 

She explained that germs like dark 
places, and that food lodges between the 
teeth and makes them decay. 

“Brush your teeth when you go to bed, 

Every night,” the Twins next said. 

George remarked that every child 
should have his own tooth brush, and 
keep it clean, and that he should buy 
a new one often. He said the teeth should 
be brushed carefully inside and outside, 
up and down, until they are perfectly 
clean. 




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He drew on the blackboard a Good 
Health Poster in which the tooth brush 
was three times as large as the child hold¬ 
ing it. He wrote below the tooth brush, 
“Who is more important than I?” 

The children laughed at this poster and 
a good laugh helps us to remember things. 

Helen remarked, 

“Here’s one thing you won’t care to hear 
Go to the dentist once every year.” 

She explained the fact that if the first 
teeth were well cared for, the second set 
of teeth would be better, and she said 
every child who has courage enough to go 
to a dentist, will he helped by the visit to 
him. 

The Twins said, “We will now tell tales 
about food,” and they added, 




THE TOOTHBRUSH SONG 


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“Our teeth would tell you if they could, 

That we should slowly eat our food, 

We very seldom stop and think, 

When we are taking food and drink.” 

While the Twins were talking they no¬ 
ticed a squirrel on a tree outside cracking 
a nut. They said it was perfectly proper 
for him to do this as his teeth were made 
for cracking hard shells of nuts, but that 
no child should abuse his teeth in this way 
by cracking hard things in his mouth. 

“It really is beyond belief, 

You would crack nuts with your teeth.” 

remarked the Twins sadly. 

The children coaxed the Twins to tell 
them a tooth brush song. So they thought 
a while, and then said, “We all will sing to 
the tune of ‘Yankee Doodle.’ ” 




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We’re Rosy-Face children every one, 

And this is what we’ll do, Sir, 

This tooth brush business is real fun, 

We’re learning something new, Sir! 

Chorus: 

Brush the teeth then every day, 

Health ideas we’re bringing, 

Morning, noon and night we say, 

You can hear us singing. 

The Rosy-Face children everywhere, 

Will learn this lesson early, 

Their teeth they always give much care, 

To keep them white and! pearly. 

The Rosy-Face Twins led the children 
in a Tooth-Brush Drill. They all brought 
new tooth brushes to school, and used 
them in the Drill. They also gave the song 
another day as an entertainment, using 
imaginary tooth brushes, and singing the 





The Twins noticed a squirrel on a tree outside 


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chorus faster and faster. This made 
the audience laugh and the children en- 



The Twins said some people naturally 
have better teeth than others, but that we 
should all do our best to preserve our 
teeth. 

The children learned this verse, 

It matters not just how we feel, 

We’ll brush our teeth after each meal, 

We’ll brush them when we go to bed, 

And when we rise also, ’tis said, 

When we find a hole you know, 

Right to the dentist we will go, 

To be healthy we always mean, 

So we must keep our tooth brush clean, 

To be healthy little maids and men, 

We’ll brush our teeth and brush again. 






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ROSY-FACE TWINS 


The Rosy-Face Twins skipped out of 
the school room hand in hand and sang, 

“Soon we’ll tell each son and daughter, 

Some lessons about pure food and water.” 

The children asked the Twins to visit 
them again for they loved to hear the 
things the Twins told, and the children re¬ 
peated in a happy chorus, 

“We are so honest we truly mean, 

To keep our teeth shining, white and clean.” 






Before a meal to wash your hands 


THE EAT AND DRINK TIMES 

66 We hope that every son and daughter. 

Will eat pure food and drink pure water,” 

sang the Rosy-Face Twins next day, and 
as the teacher was absent they were al¬ 
lowed to talk to one class, and the chil¬ 
dren were happy to hear about the Eat 
and Drink Times. 


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ROSY-FACE TWINS 


George asked, “How many of you had 
coffee for breakfast?” 

He explained that it was much better 
for them to drink cocoa or milk. 

Helen said, “Do you take meat or eggs 
twice a day?” 

Some children replied that they even 
ate meat three times a day, and Helen said 
this was very bad for them. She ex¬ 
plained that we eat some foods for fuel 
and some for repair. We need both kinds 
of food, but too much repair food pro¬ 
duces poisonous substances and over¬ 
works some of organs in the effort to 
throw them off. She said, “Bread, pota¬ 
toes, some milk, and meat, and eggs, are 
good for us, but we should never over¬ 
eat.” She added, 




THE EAT AND DRINK TWINS 


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“You will remember this I beg, 

Do not overeat of meat or eggs.” 

The Rosy-Face Twins said, 

“We get food from animals, such as 
meat, eggs and milk, We get food from 
minerals such as salt, water and lime. We 
get food from plants such as vegetables, 
nuts and fruits.” 

The children said they had never 
thought much about the sources from 
which we obtain foods before. 

George said, “Fruit and vegetables are 
very good for us and some hard foods, and 
coarse bread.” 

“We should eat some bulky food each day,” 
That is what the Rosy-Face Twins say. 

Helen mentioned children who were 
always eating between meals, she said it 




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was very bad to overwork the stomach by 
eating too much at meal time, or eating 
between meals. 

She said a bag of candy or ice cream 
cone took away the appetite for a real 
meal, and if one must have sweets they 
should be taken directly after dinner. 
She said it is not well to eat sweets between 
meals. 

The Twins next asked the children if 
we should eat the same kind of food in 
summer as in winter, and compared our 
diet with that of the Eskimo. 

As it was near lunch time one little boy 
took out an apple and began to eat it. 

George said, “You should wash or peel 
any kind of fruit before eating it, as it may 
be dusty and contain germs.” 




THE EAT AND DRINK TWINS 


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Helen quoted, 

“I wonder if you all understand, 

Before a meal to wash your hands.” 

The children took the hint and washed 
their hands before eating their lunch that 
day, but very few of them drank any 
water. 

George said, “A large part of our body is 
made of water so we should drink at least 
three pints a day. It is well to drink a glass 
of water when we get up, and at bed-time 
and a glass often between meals.” He said, 
“If we form the habit of drinking pure 
water we would soon miss it if it was not 
at hand, and so we will remember to drink 
enough.” He said, 

“If you would keep the germs away 
Use your own drinking cup today.” 




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ROSY-FACE TWINS 


Helen was a natural little cook and she 
said, 

“This lesson I would leave with you, 

When you cook, boil, bake or stew.” 

She explained that fried foods are 
harder to digest than foods cooked in 
other ways, and that it was well for us to 

eat bread and butter with each meal. 

* * * 

The Rosy-Face Twins said, 

“Some of these rules you can repeat, 

When overheated do not eat.” 

They said if a child is overheated he 
should wait to cool off before eating, and 
that we should not sit down to eat when 
overtired. 

The children: made up their own verse 
this time to remember the lesson they 
wanted to learn, and said, 




THE EAT AND DRINK TWINS 


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“Another rule we often meet 
When very tired do not eat.” 

Mary said, “Will you please tell us how 
we should eat our food?” 

George replied, “We should always re¬ 
member to eat our food slowly and chew 
it well, and never try to wash it down our 
throats with big drinks of water.” 

Helen helped the children write out a 
menu for a lunch. 

She said, 

“It matters not just how you feel, 

Try to be cheerful at each meal.” 

The Rosy-Face Twins looked in the 
children’s lunch pails and then showed 
them their neatly packed lunch. They 
had brown bread and butter sandwiches 
neatly wrapped in wax paper, two little 




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sponge cakes, two well washed apples, and 
a bar of sweet chocolate. They said this 
was a very nourishing lunch and it looked 
neat and attractive, and of course each one 
of them had his own drinking cup. 

The children enjoyed making a list of 
proper food for a school lunch. 

The Rosy Face Twins said, “Since you ask it, 
We will make rules for a school lunch basket, 
If your Health Lessons have done you good, 
You’ll not want to put in fried food, 

In waxed paper wrap your food, 

It will taste fresh then as it should, 

Air the lunch basket in the sun, 

On Saturday please, every one, 

One thing more will you please try 
Before eating wash your figs and dry, 

Nuts and fruit and something to sweeten, 

Will make your lunch set well when eaten.” 




THE EAT AND DRINK TWINS 


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Helen said, “I have seen some children 
eat when they were not hungry at all, and 
this is very foolish, and I have heard some 
children say that they did not like milk. 
We ought to drink pure milk for it is good 
for us.” 

George said, “While we should drink 
plenty of water we must be sure it is pure, 
for impure water contains germs that will 
harm us. To show impurities in water 
place some in a glass and hold it over a 
lamp and see if sediment remains in the 
bottom. Water can be filtered by use of 
paper and charcoal.” He said, “We could 
not live without water.” 

Helen said, “Let us all try to eat pure 
food and eat it in the proper manner.” 

George hummed, 




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ROSY-FACE TWINS 


“Pure food habits we will learn, 

Then Good Health we all will earn, 

Please remember this simple rhyme, 

When eating we should take our time.” 

The children asked the Rosy-Face 
Twins to help them play a game before 
school started again. 

So the Twins chose one child to be Good 
Habits, who in turn chose her children, 
and then these children in turn chose from 
the children left, the Bad Habit Children, 
who were given such names as “Fried 
Meat,” “Coffee,” and many others. They 
stood outside the circle the Good Habit 
Children formed. Good Habits herself, 
stood inside the inner circle. The Good 
Habit Children clasped hands and circled 
round, and sang to the tune of “Twinkle, 
Little Star.” 





Good Habit herself stood inside the circle 

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ROSY-FACE TWINS 


“Pure food habits every day, 

We will form and this we say, 

To all children we will tell, 

How we learned to keep so well.” 

When Fried Meat or other of the chil¬ 
dren in the outer circle tried to break in, 
one at a time, that child would say his 
special name, 

“I am-, may I come in 

And join your merry din?” 

Good Habits then would sing, 

“No, no, no, you cannot stay 
Good Health bids you go away.” 

The children would repeat their song 
as one at a time, the Bad Habit children 
tried to break into the inner circle, if one 
succeeded he changed places with the 
child who had let him in. 





THE EAT AND DRINK TWINS 


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By and by Good Habits said, 

“Bad Habits all away, away, 

Good Health Habits win the day.” 

The Bad Habit children then ran away 
and the others skipped two and two to 
their places, and the game was ended. 

The children liked this game and said 
it was great fun to play, so the Rosy-Face 
Twins said, 

“We hope you’ll remember what we say, 

And take pure food and water every day.” 

The children clapped their hands and 
replied, 

“Some day we’ll invite you to a Keep-Well 
Party.” 

The Rosy-Face Twins then ran merrily 
homeward. 




THE EXERCISE PARTY. 


The Rosy-Face Twins rode in their 
magic airship one day and visited many 
children in many lands. 

They saw Little Stay-At-Home, who 
never took proper exercise, and Little 
On-The-Go, who skated so much he was 
getting bow-legged. They also met Little 
Know-It-All who was hard to teach and 
Little Stubborn Boy and Little Don’t 
Care. 

When the Twins reached home they 
wrote invitations to their party and asked 
all the children whom they had met, to 
come. 


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ROSY-FACE TWINS 


When the party arrived they played a 
game of dumb-bells and follow the lead¬ 
er, and the Twins went through motions 
that all the children could follow, singing, 

“A boy or girl if very wise 
Will take some proper exercise.” 

By and by the children sat down in a 
ring on the ground to rest and George 
said, “You must all practice with your 
dumb-bells to-morrow or you will feel 
lame. It is not good to take a lot of ex¬ 
ercise one day, and none the next.” 

“He exercises best you see, 

Who has some regularity.” 

Little Stay-At-Home said she was not 
used to exercise and was all out of breath. 

Little On-The-Go was ready for more 
exercise, of course. 




THE EXERCISE PARTY 


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Little Stay-At-Home 


Little Don’t Care ran a race next with 
Little Stubborn Boy and they both came 
to the goal at the same moment, but Lit¬ 
tle Don’t Care was all out of breath. 

Helen said, “We should not run hard 
enough to get all out of breath, it makes 
our heart and lungs work too hard, but 
it is splendid for us to work out-doors and 
breathe all the fresh air we can.” 




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ROSY-FACE TWINS 


All the children took deep breaths 
while the Twins counted and said, 

“Take a deep breath now and then, 

You can count way up to ten.” 

The children said this was a new kind 
of party hut they enjoyed it very much. 

The Jolly Twins said, 

“We should be happy every day, 

And exercise in work and play.” 

Tommy said he filled the wood-box 
every night and brought in water, and 
Mary said as they used gas and had water 
in the house, she had none of these things 
to do, but she ran errands after school 
for mother. Susy said she carried milk 
every day, and so all the children had ex¬ 
ercise to take, they said after school. 











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ROSY-FACE TWINS 


They next played a game of croquet 
and the Twins said, “Please do not cheat, 
it is not fair, and no fun for anyone.” 

They made a little verse out of this, 
saying, 

“Please don’t cheat, it is no fun, 

No one likes a cheater, no, not one.” 

George said, “We should be cheerful in 
a game whether we win or lose.” And 
Helen said she had heard a nice lady say, 

“I never get discouraged, it is so! 

I learned to be a good loser long ago.” 

George said, “Exercise strengthens our 
muscles and helps us develop self-control, 
and that we should take different kinds 
of exercise to develop different muscles.” 

Next came refreshments, and right 




THE EXERCISE PARTY 


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afterward some of the children wanted to 
play tag, but George said, 

“To be strong and well you will not feel 
If you exercise too soon after a meal.” 

He explained that the stomach had 
work to do and that it was not good to call 
the blood away from it too soon by ex¬ 
ercise. 

The children were very quiet while 
the Twins took turns telling this story. 

“Once upon a time there was a Grouchy 
Little Rabbit who liked to stay in the 
corner all day. 

“His mother bought him a coaster and 
his father bought him skates, but still he 
sat in the corner until one day Little Hop- 
And-Skip, a lively little Rabbit came to 
visit him. 




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ROSY-FACE TWINS 


“Hop-And-Skip rode on the coaster and 
used the skates until the Grouchy Little 
Rabbit looked out the window and saw 
it was real fun. 

“He sat on the coaster, hut it ran away 
with him, and he tried on the skates hut 
they threw him. 

“Then Hop-And-Skip saw what the 
matter was. The Grouchy Little Rabbit 
never smiled or seemed to enjoy his ex¬ 
ercise one bit, so he said, 

66 6 Smile a little if you are wise, 

And you will enjoy your exercise.’ 

“The Grouchy Little Rabbit began to 
get good-natured and after that he and 
Hop-And-Skip had jolly fun. 

“ ‘Ha, ha,’ sang the Grouchy Little Rabbit, 

‘To be good-natured I’ve formed the habit.’ 




THE EXERCISE PARTY 


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“He was so happy and grew so well and 
strong with proper exercise, that all the 
Rabbits learned from him the value of 
exercise.” 

The children asked to hear more health 
stories, but the time had come for them to 
go home. They rode to their homes with 
the Twins in their magic airship, and 
said in a sing-song kind of way, 




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ROSY-FACE TWINS 


“Every one now if he tries, 

Can take the proper exercise, 

Regular exercise it’s true, is very good for me 
and you. 

You’ll take deep breaths if you are wise, 

When you begin to exercise, 

Come exercise in work and play, 

And learn some new thing every day, 

Good Health Rules we are repeating, 

Don’t exercise right after eating, 

Good Health is something no one buys, 

Be happy when you exercise.” 










“Did you fold your clothes up neatly?” 

THE TICK TOCK SONG 

“Early to bed, early to bed,” 

That is what the old clock said, 
Hurry sisters, hurry brothers, 

Bed time for us and for others, 

To undress we’ll not be long, 

“Early to bed,” is the old clock’s song. 

The Rosy-Face Twins said, 

“The Old clock can tell this story best, 
It deals with early hours and rest.” 


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The Cuckoo came out of the clock and 
cried, 

“Oh no, such a thing would never do, 

You teach the children, cuckoo, cuckoo.” 

So George took Little Willful Willie by 
one hand and Helen took Little Miss 
Teaser by the other, and hurried the chil¬ 
dren up-stairs almost before they knew 
it, saying, 

“Says each restless little finger, 

In undressing please don’t linger.” 

“Do our fingers really talk to us?” 
asked the children in surprise. 

The Rosy-Face Twins answered, “Of 
course they do if we will only listen. 
Hear your thumb and forefinger say, 

“Brush your teeth to keep them white. 

Before you really say good night.” 





Fred took Willful Willie and Freda took little Miss Teaser upstairs to bed 

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Then the Twins whispered softly, 

“Fold your hands when prayers are said, 
Before you’re ready quite for bed.” 

Helen asked, 

“Did you fold your clothes up neatly? 

Did you brush your hair completely?” 

At last the children were ready for bed 
and the Twins opened the bed-room win¬ 
dow and turned out the light. 

They said, “We should all keep early 
hours, for sleep restores the tired body 
better than anything else, and everybody 
and everything needs rest. Even machin¬ 
ery needs rest and repair. 

“If we have plenty of sleep we wake up 
happy and rested and ready for the day’s 
work before us.” 

Many children need a little rest in the 




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61 


day as well as at night. Ten minutes spent 
lying down on a sofa at noon will often 
refresh a person. They said they often 
heard children say: 

“Do we have to go to bed at eight? 

A little longer up let us wait.” 

George said, “It is very foolish to ask 
to stay up at night for our parents know 
better than we do how much sleep we 
need.” 

Helen said, “No sensible boy or girl 
should be afraid to go to bed alone. The 
moon and stars are shining in the sky as 
company for us.” She added, 

“Early hours, early hours, 

Soon will strengthen all our powers, 

We’ll never grow up strong and bright, 

If we read too late at night.” 

George remarked, “One reason I am so 




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strong and well is that I always go to bed 
early, and I never read in bed for I am 
too careful of my eyes.” 

Helen said, “I often put myself to bed 
humming this song; 

“ ‘Early hours,’ sings my clock, 

‘Tick, tock, tick, tock, 

Carry the message round the block, 

Tick, tock, tick, tock;’ 

Said the Wind, ‘I like your sleepy song, 

So I will carry your message on, 

Here come the children, a sleepy throng,’ 

Tick, tock, tick, tock.” 

Willful Willie made up his mind he 
would not go to sleep but he began to 
think of the sleepy little birds and ani¬ 
mals all the world over, and soon he was 
off to the land of nod. The old clock 
murmured, 




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63 


“Little Miss Teaser, 

Nothing can please her.” 

For once the old clock was mistaken, 
for she had taken Helen’s advice and was 
fast asleep. 

Children all over the world said, 

“Early to bed, early to bed, 

That is what the Rosy-Face Twins said, 

Go to sleep with the birds and flowers, 

Keep early hours, keep early hours.” 

The Twins also hurried off to bed for 
the Family Clock struck eight and re¬ 
marked, 

“You must practice what you teach, 

If the heart of a child you’d reach, 

Don’t you hear the Sandman knock? 

Tick, toclc, tick, tock.” 





FRESH AIR GAMES. 


The Rosy-Face Twins said, “Have a care, 
Breathe in plenty of fresh air.” 

They talked to children all over the 
world and everywhere they went chil¬ 
dren loved them, and were glad to hear 
the little Health Stories from them. 


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Have a care—breathe in plenty fresh air 




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Tilly and Ted, two little neighbor chil¬ 
dren clapped their hands when they saw 
the Twins coming. 

The Rosy-Face Twins said, “We are go¬ 
ing to talk to you about Fresh Air. We 
all need Fresh Air to breathe, animals and 
plants need it too.” 

Ted looked thoughtful and said, “Fire 
needs air too, to make it burn.” To prove 
this he lighted a candle and put it under 
a glass jar and the candle went out for 
want of air. 

Tillie said, “I have learned too that 
air moves.” She held a paper over the 
hot-air register, and she said, “I know 
too, that hot air rises.” 

The Twins said, “You are well-read 




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67 


children, and now do you know that air 
should be kept in motion and that we feel 
sleepy and stupid when we breathe close, 
bad air?” 

Tillie said that the air was very close 
in the moving picture show, and Ted said 
it was close in his room in the morning 
when he forgot to leave the window open 
at night. 

Said the Rosy-Face Twins, “We are glad you’ve 
spoken, 

All children should leave their windows open, 
Remember at night when you go to bed, 

This thing the Rosy-Face Twins have said.” 

Just then Tillie sneezed, for she had a 
cold, and she did not use her handker¬ 
chief. 




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The Twins reminded her that any one 
with a cold or cough should sneeze or 
cough into a handkerchief, so as not to 
scatter the germs and give any one else 
a cold. 

Helen said, 

“It is almost beyond belief, 

How careless you are with your handkerchief.” 

George said, “Many children throw 
their handkerchiefs down and get them 
all covered with dust and then use them. 
Other children are not careful always to 
use a clean handkerchief.” 

Helen said, 

“You are bright children I suppose, 

You always breathe air through your nose.” 

Ted laughed at that, for he had a care- 




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69 


less habit of breathing through the 
mouth. 

The Rosy-Face Twins said, 

“We remember in work and play, 

To take deep breaths every day.” 

The children stopped and drew in deep 
breaths of fresh air. As it began to storm 
they went inside to play. 

The Rosy-Face Twins said, 

“Before we play we’d better stop, 

And open a window from the top.” 

They explained that bad air rises and 
is ready to escape, and that pure air comes 
in to take its place. 

The Rosy-Face Twins said if they ever 
caught cold they remained out doors as 
much as possible and breathed deeply of 




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To read the thermometer near the ceiling 


fresh air. In this way they soon broke a 
cold up. They said they slept out on a 
porch all the year round and added, 

“We carry this message everywhere, 

Every child must breathe fresh air.” 

Ted and Tillie learned how to read the 









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71 



thermometer and they held it on the floor 
and near the ceiling to see where the air 
was hottest. They tried other experi¬ 
ments with air. They breathed into lime 
water, and held a candle above and below 
a window to see how the flame would 
turn. If you want to know what hap¬ 
pened you can try these things for your¬ 
self. 





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The Twins went out for a minute and 
returned with four red balloons. They 
explained that they were filled with air 
and that the children must be careful not 
to make a hole in them. 

They had fun sailing them around the 
room. 

Ted and Tillie were thoughtful chil¬ 
dren and after the Twins bade them good 
bye they wrote down a few things to re¬ 
mind them about forming the habit of 
breathing plenty of fresh air. 

They wrote, 

“It will not make much commotion 
If we keep the air in motion, 

Open the window from the top, 

So with us bad air will not stop, 




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73 


Hot air rises as you know 
Out of a window it will go, 

Some games we should always play, 

Out in the open air each day, 

Your mouth you can tightly close, 

And breathe deeply through the nose, 

To others it will bring relief, 

If you’re careful with your handkerchief, 
This motto we’ll carry everywhere, 

We need fresh air, we need fresh air, 

If we form good habits it is true, 

Right things unconsciously we’ll do.” 


The Rosy-Face Twins were happy when 
they arrived home, and they tried many 
experiments to show the value of fresh 



air. 





Bought a bouquet of flowers 


SAFETY FIRST MOTTOES. 

“Good Health to-day good health to-morrow, 
Good Health will save us from much sorrow.” 

sang the Rosy-Face Twins one morning. 

They went to the green-house and 
bought a bunch of flowers to take to 
Heedless Henry who had been knocked 
down on the street by an automobile, be¬ 
cause he had not looked to see if one was 
coming before he crossed the street. 


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75 


Heedless Henry was so pleased to see 
the Twins that he said, “Do please stay 
and play a game with me.” 

The Twins said they had promised to 
take Willful Willie and Dotty Dreamer to 
the park, so they soon had to go, but they 
taught him this verse before they left. 

“Some useful things we will repeat, 

Be careful when you cross the street.” 

They said, “No matter how much of a 
hurry we are in, we should always take 
time to look up and down the street, to 
see what is coming, before we attempt to 
cross.” George added, 

“No matter how full of life you feel, 

Never run in front of an automobile.” 

George said a child might slip and fall, 




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and it annoyed a driver to see a child take 
such risks. 

The Twins went on to the house of 
Willful Willie and Dotty Dreamer and 
the children were glad to go with them to 
the park. The Twins noticed how Will¬ 
ful Willie shuffled along and they said, 

“Safety First upon the street, 

Please be careful—lift your feet.” 

Willful Willie said he wanted to run 
and hang onto an ice wagon, but George 
said, 

“Safety First—I will repeat 
Don’t hang on wagons on the street.” 

“Why not?” Asked Willful Willie, and 
Helen said, “So many children get hurt 
while hanging on wagons and hitching on 
bobs, it is not a safe thing to do.” 




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77 


Some children were playing ball they 
noticed in the street. Every once in a 
while they had to stop to let something 
pass, and George remarked, smiling at the 
children, 

“I hope children when next we meet, 

I’ll not find you playing in the street.” 

Willful Willie said, “It is fun to play in 
the street!” George answered, 

“Safety First—as like as not, 

You can play ball in a vacant lot.” 

Dotty Dreamer did not look where she 
was walking and ran into a stranger. She 
was much confused and Helen said, 

“Saftey First—by day or night, 

On the street, pass to the right.” 

She said we should be watchful when 
we are on the street and should mind our 





Dotty Dreamer ran into a stranger 


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79 


own affairs and look out where we are 
going. 

Willful Willie asked, “Are there any 
other things we should do when thinking 
of Safety First.” 

George said, 

“Safety First—here’s a good sign, hark! 

Don’t go on the street after dark.” 

Helen said, 

“From contagious diseases keep away, 

If Safety First, should win the day.” 

Dotty Dreamer said, “You mean if any 
of our playmates have mumps or measles, 
we should stay away from them, so as not 
to get it ourselves, or spread the disease 
by carrying it to others.” 

Willful Willie to the surprise of all, 
said, “I can talk in verse too on this sub¬ 
ject.” He continued. 




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“For Safety First, it is a good plan, 

To keep scraps in a garbage can.” 

Dotty Dreamer thought a long time, 
and then she said, 

“Safety First—if we are wise, 

We will help destroy the flies.” 

The Rosy-Face Twins said that was 
good advice as flies spread disease by 
carrying germs. 

The children had a good time in the 
park and when they reached home each 
one made a banner to pin on the wall. On 
each banner they wrote the words “Safe¬ 
ty First.” 

The Twins said, 

“The reason that we keep so well, 

Is a good thing we really like to tell, 

Good Health rules we try to learn, 

And help others in our turn.” 




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81 


Dotty Dreamer could sing a little and 
Willful Willie could write verses so, after 
the Twins had left them they wrote a lit¬ 
tle song which they called “Safety First.” 
They sang it to the tune of “Coming 
Thro The Rye.” 

Little children when they’re walking 
Up and down the street, 

Should observe, though they are talking, 
Everything they meet, 

Safety First is a good motto, 

We will not annoy, 

For Safety First in Good Health Village 
Stand each girl and boy. 

They telephoned the Rosy-Face Twins 
and said, “What stories will you tell us 
to-morrow?” 

The Twins replied, 




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“Fighting germs we go up and down, 

For we come from Spotless Town.” 

The children said, “It will be interest¬ 
ing to study about germs we are sure.” 
They went up to bed singing, 

“Safety First, Safety First, 

How much there is to learn, 

Safety First, Safety First, 

A good night’s rest we earn.” 







THE GERMS GO AWAY. 


Dr. Pill was very busy riding behind 
his old gray mare. He was helping the 
people fight germs in Ignorance Town. 

Doctor Powder was hurrying along in 
his car to take care of Little Don’t Care, 
who had been drinking impure water. 

Doctor Sunshine and Doctor Fresh Air 
were helping Little Teaser back to health, 
and Heedless Henry said, “It is time the 
Rosy-Face Twins should come and help 
us fight the germs.” 

The Rosy-Face Twins were very glad to 
tell the children all they knew about 
fighting germs. 


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ROSY-FACE TWINS 


They said, “To be healthy we know you mean, 
To fight the germs we must keep clean, 

Of course you will keep clean yourself, 

Clean also the kitchen and pantry shelf, 
Cleanliness inside and out, 

Will help put the germs to rout.” 

Doctor Sunshine and Doctor Fresh Air 
smiled at the Twins and said, “You are 
such cheerful, willing workers we know 
that children everywhere love you.” 

Doctor Pill and Doctor Powder did not 
even get within speaking distance of the 
Twins, for they observed the rules of 
health so thoroughly that they were al¬ 
ways well. 

George said, “We feel we cannot say 
too much about the tooth brush being 
used, and being kept clean.” 

Helen added, 




THE GERMS GO AWAY 


85 


“Sun the tooth brush every day, 

’Twill help to keep the germs away.” 

The Twins visited one house that had 
no screens in the windows, and as the 
family were too poor to have screens they 
helped them tack netting over the win¬ 
dows, and taught them that flies go into 
such dirty places we should never let 
them get on our food. They added, 

“We’ll kill the flies at every turn, 

For they carry germs we learn.” 

The Twins said that germs did not live 
long if we kept everything clean, and let 
in plenty of sunshine and fresh air. Then 
they said we should also remember to 
drink pure water and eat good pure food. 
They said germs were fond of getting into 




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food that was the least bit spoiled, or into 
impure water. 

They said, 

“Pure water and food, pure water and food, 

We will eat and drink only what is good.” 

The Twins found Dotty Dreamer and 





















THE GERMS GO AWAY 


87 


Willful Willie busy for once at home, 
and they were surprised to see them 
sweeping a room. 

Many children like to work but do not 
understand how to go about it. Dotty 
Dreamer raised a cloud of dust as she 
swept, and Willful Willie had every win¬ 
dow closed. 

The Twins opened the windows and 
showed the children how to brush gently 
and use a carpet sweeper. 

They said we should try not to let the 
dust rise. 

They said dust contains so many germs 
we should try not to breathe any more of 
it than we can help, and when we have 
been in a dusty place we should wash the 
dust out of our noses. 




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Dotty Drenmer raised clouds of dust as she swept 


We should be careful at all times to 
breathe through our noses and not keep 
our mouths open, for our noses were 
made to breathe through, and to cleanse 
the air before it reaches our lungs. 

The Rosy-Face Twins helped the chil¬ 
dren dust the room and put it in order. 






THE GERMS GO AWAY 


89 


They said it helped make us healthy to 
exercise every day and added, 

“To fight the germs if you are wise, 

You will take proper exercise.” 

The Twins continued, 

“Some children, now alas, 

Use the same old drinking glass.” 

They said we could not be too careful 
about having a glass clean and for the use 
of one person only. 

The Twins saw a soiled roller towel 
in one kitchen and said, 

“Some Good Health lessons we all can glean, 

We hope you’ll keep your towels clean.” 

Heedless Harry wanted to visit a friend 
who had measles but the Twins said, 

“From contagious diseases keep away, 

Or else the germs will win the day.” 




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The Twins opened the windows and showed the children how to 
carpet sweeper 


use a 


All the children became much inter¬ 
ested in fighting germs and made a book¬ 
let entitled, “Fighting the Germs.” In it 
they wrote, 




















THE GERMS GO AWAY 


91 


66 We’ll fight the germs and you’ll see 
A happy, healthy community. 

Cleanliness shall our motto be, 

For germs all like impurity, 

Then with sunshine and fresh air, 

We’ll conquer bad germs everywhere, 

With exercise if he is wise, 

One can resist germs if he tries, 

By taking deep breaths every day. 

We can scare a cold away, 

We have learned much and this we say, 

We will fight germs every day, 

If you’ll observe these things my dear, 

The disease germs you need not fear, 

Every happy child now sings, 

Good Health Habit—Good Health brings.” 

The Rosy-Face Twins from Good Health Town, 
Are singing merrily, 

The Twins from Good Health Town, 

Formed habits good you see. 

The Twins had formed cheerful hahits 




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long ago, so they naturally woke up pleas¬ 
ant and tried to teach all the children 
around them to be cheerful and happy. 

This day the children sat down in a 
circle on the floor and the Twins sat 
down inside the circle and took turns 
speaking. 

George said, “I want to talk about 
forming Health Habits. We can all form 
a good habit by doing a thing at a regular 
time over and over, and it is just as easy 
to form a good habit as a bad one. If we 
never form any bad habits we will never 
have to break them. It is very difficult 
to break a habit once formed. 

* * * 

Helen said, 

“Listen well if you would hear, 

We’ll form the habit of good cheer.’’ 




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93 


She said it was a healthy thing to be 
cheerful and it was well for us to be with 
happy people as much as possible. 

Good cheer has an effect like sunshine. 

* * * 

George said, “We can form habits of 
mind as well as habits of body.” He said, 

“We should form habits you all agree 
Let’s form the habit of courtesy, 

Thrift and the habit of good cheer. 

Are habits we should form this year, 

We’ll be thoughtful on the whole, 

With self-improvement and self-control.” 

* * * 

Helen said to the children, “What 
Health Habits can you think of, to 
form?” 

They replied, “Early Hours,” “Regular 
Food,” “Proper Exercise” and “Rest.” 





The children sat down in a circle on the floor 


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95 


“Plenty of Fresh Air,” “Cleanliness of 
Body and Mind.” 

The children asked the Twins to 
make up some jingles so they could better 
remember the Little Stories, so they 
said, 

“Cleanliness of body and mind, 

Is a good habit you will find, 

Underclothes let’s change each week, 

To be healthy we all seek.” 

* * * 

George told about one little boy who 
was so in the habit of bathing on Sat¬ 
urday night, that he did not think it 
right to bathe in the tub any other time. 
George remarked, however, that it was 
a good thing to have a regular time to 
take a tub bath. 




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Helen said, “We are less apt to forget 
to brush our teeth if we have a regular 
time to do it, and we should form the 
habit of washing the hair frequently.” 

The Twins both told about eating 
regularly at the same hours each day. 
They said we should not overeat or eat 
when we are not hungry, or eat when 
we are very tired or overheated. We 
should eat at regular times and eat 
slowly enough, chewing our food thor¬ 
oughly. They said, 

“To form this habit is very good. 

Eat regularly of simple food.” 

* * * 

George said we should form habits of 
regular exercise and be careful not to 
run and jump too soon after eating. He 




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97 


said we ought to take different kinds of 
exercise in the fresh air as often as pos¬ 
sible, and so form the habit of being out 
doors a great part of the time. 

He said, 

“To form the Health Habit is very wise, 

Be sure to take proper exercise.” 

* * * 

Helen said, “I hope you all formed 
the habit long ago of leaving your bed¬ 
room window open at night so plenty of 
fresh air will get into your room. I hope 
also you go to bed early so as to get plenty 
of sleep.” 

She said, 

“Go to bed at an early hour, 

To form Health Habits is in your power.” 

She continued, “Children should early 
form the habit of keeping the hands 




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clean, and we should never put pencils 
or money or any such things in the 
mouth.” 

She said, “We should early form the 
habit of standing erect, with shoulders 
back and not ever get into careless habits 
of walking, standing, or sitting.” 

* * * 

George said that some children had the 
habit of speaking so low and indistinctly 
that it was difficult to understand them. 

He said, “We can all form the habit of 
speaking distinctly.” He said, 

“This habit we need to form that’s clear, 

Speak up well, so all can hear.” 

Helen remarked, 

“One last word I want to say, 

Please form the habit of fair-play.” 





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99 


George said, 

“There’s one habit that makes me want to sing, 
Please take an interest in EVERYTHING!” 

Helen then continued, 

“Little sister, little brother, 

Please bring happiness to another.” 

She said, “It is wonderful how well 
and happy you will feel, if you forget 
yourself and bring happiness to some 
one else by some little habits of courtesy 
or kindness.” 

* * * 

George said, “We should all take the 
best possible care of these wonderful 
bodies that are given us.” He also said 
that many children never think of being 
careful of their eyes. 




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He said, “It is never well to sit facing 
a bright light or to try to read in the twi¬ 
light or lying down.” He said, “Our eyes 
are faithful servants and it is a good 
habit to close them once in a while, so 
they may have a little rest from what¬ 
ever we are doing.” He said, 

66 We’ll form the habit if we are wise, 

To take good care of our precious eyes.” 

This group of children asked the 
Rosy Face Twins to stay, but they said 
they would come the next day with a 
wonderful grab-bag, they waved good¬ 
bye saying, 

“Good Health Habits, Good Health Habits, 
Form in work or play, 

Good Health Habits, Good Health Habits, 
Come to win the day.” 




THE SLOGAN PARTY 


The Twins talked to children all over 
the world. 

Said the Rosy-Face Twins, “Don’t be a boaster. 
But help us make a Good Health Poster.” 

They had been working for days and 
days together on something mysterious 
to be put in the grab-bag for the chil¬ 
dren to enjoy. They had put in a sash 
for each child to wear and each sash had 
a good health remark upon it. These re¬ 
marks were called “Good Health Slo¬ 
gans.” 

Of course the children were very eager 
to have the hour come when they could 
take turns at the grab-bag. 


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ROSY-FACE TWINS 



They had been working for days and days together on something mysterious 


The Twins saw that each package had 
a bright colored ribbon attached to it, 
and then the children began to arrive. 

In came Mary and Little Ann and 
Little Heedless Henry and Willful Willie, 
and Dotty Dreamer and all the rest. 

The first thing the children saw in 
front of them was a sign, “THE HEALTH 
WAY IS THE WEALTH WAY.” 




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103 


They followed until they came into 
the room where the grab-hag was. Each 
child had his turn grabbing until he had 
received his sash with the good health 
slogan upon it, and then they began to 
grab all over again. 

Dotty Dreamer pulled a red streamer, 
out of the grab-bag came a neatly framed 
little motto, “Pure milk each day keeps 
sickness away.” 

Then the most surprising thing hap¬ 
pened! 

The Twins had on their magic shoes, 
and when they wore them they could 
run fast or they could make magic wishes, 
so, in the twinkling of an eye they wished 
for milk for all the campany, and each 
child received a glass of milk. The 




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glasses all had little gilt rims on them, 
and the children were allowed to keep 
them to take home. 

Heedless Henry next drew a blue rib¬ 
bon and out came a banner with the 
words upon it, “An apple a day keeps 
ill-health away.” Every child received an 
apple rosy red. They slipped the apples 
in their pockets to take home. 

Little Miss Teaser pulled out a yellow 
and green ribbon at the same time, and 
out came a tiny booklet. On the first 
page it said, 

66 What do you think? what do you think? 

Take plenty of food and plenty of drink.” 

Then the children had a fine, healthy 
repast. 

Willful Willie wanted to hurry back 




THE SLOGAN PARTY 


105 


to the grab-bag and he drew a purple 
ribbon and out came a card saying, 

“Good Cheer is the cure for fear.” 

The children all laughed and the Twins 
said that Willful Willie might draw again. 
This time he drew a pink ribbon and out 
came a spinning top. 

On the spinning top was written, “He 
who is wise takes exercise.” 

They wound up the top and it began to 
spin, humming a little song. 

Little Don’t Care drew a green ribbon 
and out came a tiny tub, on which was 
written, “The Clean Way Is The Health 
Way.” The children put water in the 
tub and floated paper boats. 

Then the Twins drew together from 
the grab-bag and out came the picture 





And it began to spin, humming a little song 


106 





THE SLOGAN PARTY 


107 


of an airship on which was written, “Free 
Everywhere—Fine Fresh Air.” 

They all ran a race around the house, 
then each child was given a banner with 
a Good Health Slogan upon it, and they 
decided they would form a Good Health 
Crusade, and march round the world to 
tell all the other boys and girls what they 
had learned in such a pleasant manner. 

They sang a new Good Health Song 
to the tune of “Tramp, tramp, tramp, 
the Boys are Marching,” and the words 
were so catchy that everyone learned the 
song quickly, and any child can learn it 
too, if he tries. 




GOOD HEALTH SONG. 


We will form a Health Crusade, 

As we’re marching up and down, 

And we wave our Good Health Posters bright 
and gay, 

And we sing our songs to you, 

As we go to Good Health Town, 

Happy children, healthy children all the way. 

Chorus. 

Hark! hark! hark! of health we’re singing, 

Of no germs we are afraid, 

You can hear our voices ring, 

As our Good Health Songs we sing, 

For we’re marching in our own Good Health 
Crusade. 

The children all sang, 

“Hurrah, for the Twins who keep so well, 

And the many useful things they tell, 

And so with Good Health Banners unfurled. 
We’ll march around the wide, wide world.” 


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The Twins had on their magic shoes 
so they marched away ahead of the other 
children, but we may meet them some 
day and hear them sing. 

The Rosy-Face Twins from Good Health Town, 
Wish to say, “How do you do?” 

We like to tell little stories new, 

If you will look within this book, 

One thing is very true, 

The Twins both say in voices gay, 

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THE TREASURE TWINS 

Teddy and Tilly 


Said the Treasure Twins, “Come save a 
penny, 

Though you may not have very many; 

If you don’t save you’ll not have any.” 

Said the Treasure Twins, “Come save a 
penny.” 

So sang Teddy and Tilly Treasure 
one day as they ran home from school 
in Thrift Town. 


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THE TREASURE TWINS 


They had seen children wasting 
dimes and pennies and quarters all 
day and as Old Mother Treasure met 
her children at the door she remarked: 

“What have you learned to save today? 

Time, or money, tell me, pray.” 

Teddy and Tilly Treasure answered, 
“We were not taught much about sav¬ 
ing today; tell us please, Mother Treas¬ 
ure, what you are thinking about.” 

Old Mother Treasure kept on with 
her knitting, for her hands were never 
idle, and she replied: 

“WE CAN SAVE MONEY, TIME, AND 
FOOD, 




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13 


TO SAVE SOME OTHER THINGS, WE 
SHOULD- 

SAVE TODAY, AND SAVE TOMOR¬ 
ROW, 

THEN YOU WILL NOT HAVE TO BOR¬ 
ROW.” 

The children sat down and thought 
for a very long time about things to 
save, and if you read to the very last 
page in this book, you will learn what 
saving habits they formed, and you 
can put some of their ideas into prac¬ 
tice. 

Tilly said, “How can we learn to 
save money, and not run and spend 
every penny we earn, and every dime 
given us?” 

Teddy answered: 




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THE TREASURE TWINS 


“We’ll ask the bank that Uncle Thrift gave; 
Perhaps it will teach us some way to save.” 

They had a little pig-shaped bank 
with a slit in the back, in which they 
dropped pennies. 

J ust then Uncle Thrift came in laugh¬ 
ing and singing: 

“About Thrift I heard you talk; 

I save some pennies when I walk.” 

He said he often walked up from 
town to save carfare, and he also 
knew it was good for his health to 
walk. 

Uncle Thrift liked to talk in rhyme 
and he Sang merrily: 

“Save a part of what you earn, 

The first Thrift lesson then you learn.” 




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15 


He said every boy and girl can form 
Thrift habits and soon it will become 
natural to them to save. 

At this very minute Teddy Treasure 
thought of the quarter he had earned 
running errands, and he asked Uncle 
Thrift to change it into nickels, one of 
which he dropped into the little pig- 
bank. 

Tilly Treasure had earned fifty cents 
by staying in the evening with a neigh¬ 
bor’s child, so she got Uncle Thrift to 
change it into two quarters and she 
dropped one quarter into the bank. 

Uncle Thrift said: 

“Some money save, and some money spend, 
So a stingy old miser you’ll not end.” 





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THE TREASURE TWINS 


Old Mother Treasure was listening, 
and she nodded her head, and her 
needles went “click, click, click.” She 
said: 

“A miser is a person. I’ve been told, 

Who is very lonely, and piles up gold.” 

Uncle Thrift said after the children 
had more money in the pig-bank, they 
could buy thrift stamps, and they 
could also start a savings account in 
the Postal Savings department in the 
Post Office. He said if they left money 
there a whole year it would bring them 
interest. He continued: 

“You can help other children if you choose, 
By bearing to them this glad news 
They’ll never learn to save at all, 

Unless they start with something small.” 




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Tilly and Teddy laughed, for how 
often they had heard children say, “A 
penny is not worth saving, it hardly 
amounts to anything at all.” 

Old Uncle Thrift said, “We can be 
thoughtful about spending. You do 
not have to buy an ice-cream cone 
every day, or a bag of candy. You do 
not have to drop a penny in the weigh¬ 
ing machine just because you see some 
one else do it. He added: 

“If you have money to save, and money to 
lend, 

Please think a minute before you spend.” 

He spoke further of self-denial in 
regard to saving money and said: 

“As you are a child instead of an Elf, 

You can surely learn to deny yourself.” 




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THE TREASURE TWINS 


The Twins laughed at this, for they 
knew that Elves and Fairies are so gay 
they never think of denying themselves. 

Old Mother Treasure said, “I know 
of another way you can save money. 
We can often substitute one article 
for another. F or example, if we want to 
to buy an expensive cap we can often 
get along with a cheaper one and so 
on.” 

Uncle Thrift agreed with her and 
added: 

“If you keep account of what you spend, 

It will often help you in the end.” 

He gave the Twins two little red 
account books and showed them how 





Ir YOU KEEP ACCOUNT OF WHAT YOU SPEND 
IT WILL OFTEN HELP YOU IN T.UC END 


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THE TREASURE TWINS 


to write in them the money they had 
on hand, and to write in another col¬ 
umn the money they spent. 

The Twins became very interested 
in keeping accounts and found it help¬ 
ed them to save, for never before had 
they realized they spent so much. 

Old Uncle Thrift said it was often 
easier to save if one had an object to 
save for. 

Tilly nodded her head for she re¬ 
membered how she had saved for a 
new book, and Teddy nodded for he 
remembered how he had saved for a 
new ball. Their eyes twinkled as they 
remembered how they both had been 




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saving to buy Uncle Thrift a fine 
book for his coming birthday. 


Old Mother Treasure said by and by: 

“Saving habits are useful, we agree, 

Write a lesson that every child can see.” 

Teddy and Tillie wrote in their new 
books, .S',4 VING MONEY. 








22_THE TREASURE TWINS 

SAVING MONEY 

1. By Saving Habits. 

2. By Thoughtfulness. 

3. By Self-Denial. 

4. By Substituting Cheaper 

Articles. 

5. By Keeping Accounts. 

6. By Saving With An Object 

in View. 





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23 


Old Mother Treasure said it was 
bed-time, and Old Uncle Thrift was 
nid-nid-nodding in his old arm chair. 

The children made up a little song 
and sang it to the tune of “Lightly 
Row.’ ’ They called it ‘‘A Thrift Song” 
and I really believe they sang them¬ 
selves to sleep. 






24 THE TREASURE TWINS 


Thrift Song 

Save a bit, save a bit, 

Every little child can learn. 
Save a bit, save a bit, 

Now it is your turn. 

To Thrift Town we’ll go in turn, 
Many useful things to learn. 
Save a bit, save a bit, 

Soon as you can earn. 



Going to the Picnic 















Jolly Errands 

If Uncle Thrift had not talked in his 
sleep, the Treasure Twins would never 
have been missing for one whole day 
but Uncle Thrift said one night in his 
sleep: 

“Save paper and string, save paper and 
string, 

Such saving makes my old heart sing.” 


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THE TREASURE TWINS 


Then, Old Mother Treasure said one 
morning as she was talking to herself: 

“A paper bag would come in handy, 

When giving away a little candy.” 

The Twins were thinking a great 
deal about the fine book they were 
going to buy for Uncle Thrift. 

Old Mother Treasure said as it was 
Saturday they might go to town and 
buy the book, and on their way they 
must stop at the grocer’s and buy a 
bag of sugar, and at the dry goods store 
and buy a yard of ribbon, and at the 
bakery and buy a dozen buns and go 
to the shoemaker’s and get her shoes 
that she left to be mended. 

Teddy and Tilly danced along sing¬ 
ing: 




THE TREASURE TWINS 


27 


“Errands with string and errands with pa¬ 
per, 

How can we help cut a caper?” 


They were so merry that Tommy- 
Think - A - Bit, and Susy- See - It -All, 
stopped to ask them where they were 
going, and the Twins replied: 


“To do errands for Mother, with paper and 
and string, 

And back with us a fine book we will 
bring.” 

Tommy and Susy joined them and 
before long many children in Thrift 
Town began to see who could save the 
most paper and the most string, and 
the most paper bags. 




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THE TREASURE TWINS 


The Thrift Twins drew their little 
cart behind them. They went first to 
the grocer’s to buy sugar. He put it 
in a neat paper bag and they put the 
bag in their cart singing: 

“The little Treasure Twins we are by name, 

We’ll save the bag in which sugar came.” 

Next they went to the dry goods 
store to buy a yard of ribbon, and they 
sang about saving the paper and string 
in which it was wrapped. 

Tilly sang: 

“Nearly every day we bring, 

Into the house paper and string.” 

Teddy sang: 

“From packages fold paper neatly; 

It can wrap others again completely.” 




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29 


They were happy as they went from 
one store to another doing errands for 
Old Mother Treasure. 

They got the buns at the bakery and 
the shoes at the shoemaker’s, and 
everywhere they went they got packages 
wrapped in paper and string. They 
sang merrily: 

“We’ll save our string and make a large ball, 
It will then be ready for use by all.” 

The Twins did not know where to 
buy the fine book for Uncle Thrift. 
They went from one store to another 
but could not find the fine book. 

By and by they met a Popular Ped¬ 
lar who sang: 




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THE TREASURE TWINS 


“I’m a Popular Pedlar, merry and gay, 
Who will buy a fine book today?” 

The children were delighted to buy 
the fine book, and the Popular Ped¬ 
lar was so merry they followed him 
down the road. 

Now when evening came and the 
Thrift Twins did not return Old Moth¬ 
er Treasure and Uncle Thrift went 
down the road in search of them. They 
went to the grocer’s, and said: 


“The little Treasure Twins have been gone 
all day; 

Have you see the Treasure Twins? Tell us, 
pray.” 





ME.RRY AND G AY 


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THE TREASURE TWINS 


The grocer replied: 

“The Treasure Twins called and we heard 
them sing, 

Of saving bags, and paper, and string.” 

Then Old Mother Treasure and 
Uncle Thrift went to the dry goods 
store, and found the Twins had been 
there but the clerk said: 

“The Treasure Twins cut up many a caper, 
But they talked of saving string and paper.” 

Then Old Mother Treasure went to 
the bakery and Uncle Thrift went to 
the shoemaker’s only to find the Twins 
had been there and gone. They walked 
homeward and still no Twins ap¬ 
peared. 




THE TREASURE TWINS 


33 


They came at last, late in the even¬ 
ing, and Old Mother Treasure hugged 
and kissed them and said it was time 
for bed. 

They had a mysterious package 
which they hid away and they said 
merrily: 

“Two little Treasure Twins, much they gave, 
For every day things they learned to save. 
They saved so carefully every day, 

They soon had something to give away.” 

“Such things to give as birthday 
presents,” said Uncle Thrift with a 
merry twinkle in his eye, for he knew 
the next day would be his birthday 
and he liked to tease. 




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THE TREASURE TWINS 


Old Mother Treasure put the sugar 
from the paper bag into a jar, and 
smoothed the paper bag out neatly 
and put it in a drawer to use again. 
She took the paper off the packages 
the Twins had brought and folded it 
and put it in a box ready for use. She 
made a ball out of the string remark¬ 
ing, “This string will do for the Twin’s 
new kite.” 

Next day the Twins gave Uncle 
Thrift his fine book, and he 
was so happy he read an hour and 
sixteen minutes by the clock! Then 
he said he always made it a rule to 
make a present on his birthday, and if 




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the Twins could only find some PA¬ 
PER and STRING he would help 
them make a kite. 



Uncle Thrift Made Them a Fine Kite 


Teddy and Tilly found plenty of 
paper and string and soon Uncle Thrift 
made them a wonderful kite. They 
said: 









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THE TREASURE TWINS 


“In Mother Treasure’s house ’tis the pleas¬ 
antest thing, 

There is always on hand some paper and 
string. 

Kept in a drawer or put on a low shelf, 

Where a little Treasure Twin can go help 
himself. 

Every paper bag in this house we learn, 

Will always be used again in turn. 

We’ll save today and save tomorrow, 

We’ll have things to lend, and need not 
borrow.” 


Tommy Think-A-Bit and Susy See- 
It-All enjoyed the new kite too, and 
they said they were going to be thrifty 
and save paper and string. 




THE TREASURE TWINS 


37 


Tommy made a paper lantern next 
day, and Susy made a paper bag to 
carry for shopping. She pasted a pic¬ 
ture on the outside, she had saved 
from a magazine. 

The children sang a New Thrift Song 
to the tune of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Lit¬ 
tle Star.” 


Thrift Song 
Save a wee bit every day, 

Thrifty be, in work and play; 
Thrifty children, hear us sing, 
Save your paper and your string. 




Golden Plans 


“Rap-a-tap,” sounded on the door 
of Old Mother Treasure’s house one 
day, and in walked the Popular Ped¬ 
lar with his heavy pack. The chil¬ 
dren were glad to see him of course and 
Uncle Thrift shook hands with him for 
they were old friends, and had not met 
for a long time. Uncle Thrift wanted 
to buy some more books to read. 

By and by the Popular Pedlar said 
as he heard the clock strike, “If I have 
one hobby it is that of saving time” 


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THE TREASURE TWINS 


39 


Teddy and Tilly sat down beside 
him and said, “Do tell us about sav¬ 
ing time.” 

The Popular Pedlar said: 

“I learned this saying from a Rabbit, 

We can save time by punctual habits.” 

Teddy said: 

“The Popular Pedlar talks in rhyme, 

He means that we must be on time.” 

Tilly said: 

“Be on time with smiling face, 

At breakfast time be in your place.” 

The Popular Pedlar continued: “If 
I had learned to save time by punctual 
habits and had learned to do the same 
thing at the same time every day, I 
would not have been a Pedlar on the 




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THE TREASURE TWINS 


road today. It is a very thrifty thing 
to learn to save your own time and 
other people’s time as well. We have 
no right to waste a person’s time.” 

The Popular Pedlar said, “We some¬ 
times waste a person’s time by being 
late to an appointment.” 

“Such as a music teacher,” said 
Tilly. 

“Such as a dentist,” said Teddy in 
a whisper. 

The Popular Pedlar said: 

“How many minutes in every clime 
We’d save if all would be on time; 

If we would save ten minutes a day, 

We’d have more time for work and play.” 





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THE TREASURE TWINS 


Uncle Thrift now took part in the 
conversation and remarked: 

“A Thrifty person will never shirk, 

I always plan out each day’s work.” 

He explained that children could 
save time by planning their work and 
play. If a child has regular work as 
carrying milk or papers to distribute, 
he can plan to do it Saturday or after 
school at a regular time. By planning 
he will still have time left for play. 

The Popular Pedlar said: 

“Down at the heel and stubbed at the toe, 
Little Miss Waster will mournfully go.” 

He looked hard at Tilly’s shoes, then 
he remarked after a while, looking at 
Teddy: 




THE TREASURE TWINS 


43 


“Little Sir Waster, if you like my rhyme, 
Turn over a new leaf—begin saving time.” 

The Twins said they had never 
thought much about saving time be 
fore, and they were glad to learn. 

Uncle Thrift nodded his wise old 
head and said: 

“I will give you each a dime, 

If you’ll tell how to use spare time.” 

Teddy Treasure said: 

“My answer you may think very funny, 

But I’ll use spare time in earning money.” 

Suiting the action to the words he 
began to black Uncle Thrift’s shoes, 
and Tilly went for his newspaper. For 
these services Uncle Thrift paid them 
each a dime. 




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THE TREASURE TWINS 


Said the old familiar Family Clock, 
“They’ll learn to save time, like as not.” 

The children employed spare time 
that Saturday morning earning money, 
and at noon they had several dimes 
and quarters, and pennies, to put in 
the little pig-bank. 

It began to rain and the Twins 
scolded about a rainy Saturday, but 
the Popular Pedlar said: 

“We can be happy altogether, 

Don’t waste time scolding about the 
weather.” 

Teddy said, “I don’t want to use all 
my spare time working,” and Tilly 
said, “I don’t want to run errands all 
day.” 




THE TREASURE TWINS 


45 


The Popular Pedlar said: 

“Though many things we cannot measure, 
Use some spare time now for pleasure.” 

So saying, he took two books from 
his pack and presented them to the 
Twins. They were delighted to spend 
some hours in profitable reading that 
rainy Saturday afternoon you may be 
sure. 

The Popular Pedlar traveled in 
many strange lands and learned many 
interesting things. He taught the 
children how to draw fancy letters and 
how to cut out letters and paste them 
on cardboard for mottoes. 

The motto they made and liked best 
was the following. Perhaps you have 




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THE TREASURE TWINS 


read it before, “Lost yesterday, some¬ 
where between sunrise and sunset, two 
golden hours, each set with sixty dia¬ 
mond minutes. No reward is offered, 
for they are gone forever.” 

The Popular Pedlar bade them good¬ 
bye, as he went down the road, singing 
to the tune of “Lightly Row.” 


Saving Time 

Saving time, saving time, 

Makes a pleasant song and rhyme. 
Boys and girls in every clime, 
Carefully save time. 

If you do not mean to shirk, 

Save your time, and plan your work; 
Habits learn, money earn, 

Carefully save time. 





Twe Popular Pedlap 

BADE TT-IEH GOOD BYE 


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THE TREASURE TWINS 


Teddy said, “How much the Pop¬ 
ular Pedlar teaches us in a few min¬ 
utes and by using just a few words.” 

Tilly said, “I wonder what we will 
learn tomorrow.” 

Old Mother Treasure looked in the 
door this very minute and said, show¬ 
ing a half slice of bread and a cookie 
that had a bite taken out of it: 

“To teach you some things now I could, 
Perhaps I’ll talk of saving food.” 

Teddy and Tilly laughed at that, 
for they were a very good-natured fam¬ 
ily and they went to bed saying: 

“Save your time says every clock, 

Tick-tock, tick-tock, 

Saving time is saving sorrow, 

Save today and save tomorrow.” 





Every Taste I Try to Suit 


Garden Days 


Early that spring Old Mother Treas¬ 
ure began to study seed catalogues, 
and to plan their gardens. 

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THE TREASURE TWINS 


She said, “We can save food by 
planting one thing after another in 
the same place. As soon as one vege¬ 
table is used up, we can plant another. 
She continued: 

“Every good American should 
Plan to be saving with his food.” 

Old Uncle Thrift loved garden days 
and he got out his old mended wheel¬ 
barrow, and the Twins ran for their 
rake and hoe and they soon made a 
wonderful garden in Thrift Town. 

The Twins began to count how many 
bunches of radishes they might be able 
to raise, and sell from a five-cent pack¬ 
age of seeds, but Old Uncle Thrift re¬ 
minded them they would halve to keep 
the weeds away. 




THE TREASURE TWINS 


51 


Old Mother Treasure said: 

“I hope the season will be good, 

I really enjoy canning food; 

Every taste I try to suit, 

I save by preserving and drying fruit.” 

Old Mother Treasure looked at their 
orchard and berry bushes. She saved 
food every year by canning, drying 
and preserving fruit for winter use. 

Teddy and Tilly said, “How can we 
help save food? ’ ’ In Thrift Town they 
were always trying to save something. 

Uncle Thrift said: 

“You can be useful, yes indeed, 

Never eat more than you need.” 

Old Mother Treasure nodded and 
said: 




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THE TREASURE TWINS 


“Every child can help do right, 

Don’t eat without an appetite.” 

The Twins thought a long time and 
made up a good little rhyme themselves. 
They said: 

“In Thrift Town all children should 
Be careful about spoiling food.” 

Teddy was thinking about a cookie 
he had bitten into, and Tilly was 
thinking about an apple she had bit¬ 
ten into and left on the dish. 

It is astonishing how many chil¬ 
dren spoil food in this way and make it 
unfit for any one else to eat. 

The children became very interested 
in saving food and said: 




THE TREASURE TWINS 


53 


“If we have at heart the nation’s good, 

We will be saving of all food; 

And do something before you ask it, 

We’ll give rules for our school lunch 
basket.” 

Uncle Thrift said, “I will tell you 
something too about packing a lunch 
basket, or a lunch pail for school.” 

“Food with a strong odor without doubt, 

Is very much better to leave out.” 


Teddy said: 

“Good food for a lunch you see, 
Must be fresh as fresh can be.” 

Tilly said: 

“In waxed paper clean and neat, 
Wrap up food and keep it sweet.” 




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THE TREASURE TWINS 


I do not know when the children 
would have finished their rules for a 
lunch basket, but Old Mother Treas¬ 
ure who was always asking questions, 
said: 

“To be saving we really should 
Know the sources of our food.” 

Then she asked where different kinds 
of food came from. 

The children said, “We get eggs, 
meat, and milk from animals. The 
plant world yields us vegetables, nuts, 
and fruits. Salt, lime and water come 
from minerals.” 

Old Mother Treasure said, “When 
I have anything left from a meal, I do 




THE TREASURE TWINS 


55 


not throw it away but think carefully 
how I can use it again. Today I will 
give you hash made from meat and po¬ 
tatoes we had yesterday.” 

Old Uncle Thrift said to the chil¬ 
dren, “You may wrap each of those ap¬ 
ples I brought home yesterday in news¬ 
paper and put them to keep on a dry 
shelf, in the cellar. It is important to 
save food by storing it carefully away.” 

When Tilly Treasure complained 
about having to peel potatoes thin 
and Teddy complained about peeling 
apples thin for apple sauce, Uncle 
Thrift said: 


“From waste we ail want separation, 
Save food by careful preparation.” 




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THE TREASURE TWINS 


Old Mother Treasure said: 

“To save a bit at the table, 

By careful servings, we are able.” 


The children remembered that Old 
Mother Treasure never gave them a 
very large serving of anything, but 
preferred to help them a second time 
if they wanted more. In this way, no 
food was wasted upon their plates. 

Old Mother Treasure found her 
children were eating a great deal of 
sugar on their oatmeal, so she began 
to put a few dates or prunes with the 
oatmeal to sweeten it. She said, “We 
can often save one kind of food by sub¬ 
stituting another kind for it.” 




THE TREASURE TWINS 


57 


In the evening the Twins said, “We 
have each made a little blank book 
from the brown paper the groceries 
came in, and we made a cover for our 
books from samples of wall paper. We 
will name these little books ‘Saving 
Food’.” 

In the books the children pasted 
pictures of delicious looking food cut 
from advertisements, and they wrote 
in the books many things they wanted 
to remember, as: 

“Who are we? Who are we? 

The Treasure Twins as all can see; 

Our advice is always good, 

We will help you save your food.” 




58_THE TREASURE TWINS 


1 . 

Do not throw good food 
away. 

2. 

Learn to make dainty dishes 
from left-overs. 

3. 

Substitute one kind of food 
for another. 

4. 

Save food by careful prep¬ 
aration. 

5. 

Save food carefully at the 
table. 

6. 

Store away food with care 
for keeping. 






THE TREASURE TWINS 


59 


The Twins made some posters to 
help them remember to save food. They 



They Drew a Picture 


drew a picture of a little cook at a 
table. She was shown in white cap 
and apron, peeling potatoes. 










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THE TREASURE TWINS 


Under this picture they wrote: 

“Peel away quick, peel away quick, 

To be saving is quite a trick; 

As you begin, peel very thin, 

A prize for saving perhaps you’ll win.” 

The Twins sang merrily: 

“We are the Treasure Twins, merry and 
good, 

We’ve learned today to save our food; 

We wish we might meet Thrifty Rabbit, 
Who teaches all the Saving Habit.” 

Wouldn’t you give a great deal to 
meet Thrifty Rabbit? 




Health Games 


Take the advice of Thrifty Rabbit, 

Observe Health Laws, form the habit. 

So sang Thrifty Rabbit one day as 
he went with a hop, a skip, and a bound, 
through Thrift Town. 

He was surprised to see many care¬ 
less children even in Thrift Town, and 
many children who never gave a 
thought to preserving their health. 

He saw some children eating candy 
and popcorn between meals, and he 
found some children who cried for des¬ 
sert, and did not want to eat sensible 
food like meat and potatoes. 

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THE TREASURE TWINS 


He said to these children: 

“To keep good health you always should 
Be careful to eat the proper food.” 

He found other children careless 
about drinking any kind of water and 
he remarked: 


“To be a good health son or daughter, 
You will try to drink proper water.” 


He meant by this we should drink 
pure water. 

Now as Thrifty Rabbit was going 
along he heard Teddy Treasure sigh, 
“I don’t like to stay in bed with a cold 
today, but I was careless yesterday, 
to keep on wet shoes.” 





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At this very minute he heard Tilly 
Treasure sneeze and say, “I wonder if 
some one will come to tell us how to 
save our health today? We have 
learned about saving money and time, 
and many other things.” 

Imagine the Twins’ surprise when , 
Thrifty Rabbit hopped in the window 
saying: 

“I am Thrifty Rabbit and better than wealth 
Is the habit formed of Saving Health.” 


The Twins begged Thrifty Rabbit 
to tell them how to keep well and he 
said: 


By my fur and whiskers, I always try, 
When out of doors to keep quite dry.’ 




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THE TREASURE TWINS 


He went on to explain that he al¬ 
ways went in to dry his paws by the 
fire when he got wet so as to avoid 
colds. He continued: 


“Observe Health Laws if you are wise, 

Take rest and proper exercise.” 

Suddenly, without any warning 
whatever, Thrifty Rabbit became very 
angry. He hopped about, up and 
down in a rage. You cannot imagine 
what he was angry about. He no¬ 
ticed that the Twins had both been 
reading lying down, and that they had 
been reading facing the light. He 
stamped with one foot and then the 
other and cried: 




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“Every child if he is wise, 

Will always try to save his eyes.” 

He went on to say that we have 
only one pair of eyes and if we abuse 
them when we are young, they may 
give out when we are old. He re¬ 
marked: 

“Observe what Thrifty Rabbit said, 

Don’t read lying down in bed.” 

The Twins said they never had 
thought much about saving their eyes, 
but they knew that some boys and 
girls could not see very well, and some 
children had to wear glasses. 

Thrifty Rabbit drew a picture of a 
pair of spectacles and wrote under it 
many little verses about saving eye¬ 
sight. 




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Teddy wrote this verse also: 

“If you want to do what’s right, 
You’ll never sit and face the light.” 

Tilly wrote: 

“Before you are an hour older, 

Let the light fall over your shoulder.” 


The children said, “Let us make a 
Thrifty Rabbit and let him help us 
remember these things.” 

They began in real earnest and made 
some cute booklets and slyly drew a 
picture of Thrifty Rabbit outside. 

Whenever they thought of a bright 
idea they would tell each other. They 
wrote in their booklets: 




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Save Health by observing laws of 
Health. 

Save your eyes, save your steps. 

Save your energy and speech. 

Have happy, healthy thoughts. 

They added little verses from time 
to time: 

“Every Thrifty child ought 
To save his steps by taking thought.” 

The Twins said they believed they 
ran many needless miles by not tak¬ 
ing thought. How easy it would be to 
write a list when sent to the store in¬ 
stead of always forgetting something, 
and having to go back for it, taking all 
those useless steps. 




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Thrifty Rabbit said: 

“To ask fewer questions will you try, 

Said Little Sir Where, and Little Sir Why?” 

The Twins laughed for they often 
met Little Sir Where, and Little Sir 
Why, and they were children who al¬ 
ways asked useless questions. They 
thought some time, and then wrote 
in their books: 

“Each Thrifty child knows his task, 

Useless questions we’ll not ask!” 

Thrifty Rabbit said: 

“Thrifty Rabbit likes to teach, 

So save your energy and speech; 

Try to do things easily, 

Thrifty habits learn with me.” 

He flapped his long ears to and fro, 
and looked very much like a candy-box 





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THE TREASURE TWINS 


Rabbit. He played games with the 
children and sang with them. They 
all sang to the tune of “Marching 
Through Georgia:” 

“We are on a Health Crusade, 

We’re saving Health today; 

Of nothing in the world afraid, 

This we sing and say; 

We observe the laws of health, 

We’re marching on our way, 

While in Thrift Town we are singing,” 

Chorus 

“Hurrah! hurrah! we sing of saving health, 
Hurrah! hurrah! ’tis better far than wealth; 
Save a little every day, there is no better 
way, 

While in Thrift Town we are singing.” 

The children and Thrifty Rabbit 
sang so merrily that Old Mother 




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Treasure peeped in at them, and Old 
Uncle Thrift came in and joined their 
song. 

Thrifty Rabbit hopped out the win¬ 
dow and was soon off and away. 

Said Uncle Thrift, “Now I suppose 

Tomorrow well talk of saving clothes.” 

The Twins were so sleepy that their 
heads wend nid-nid-nodding and they 
said: 

“Well spread the word o’er all creation, 

We want to be a thrifty nation.” 




Picnic Clothes. 


The Treasure Twins said, “Now we suppose, 
We’ll have to think of saving clothes.” 

Teddy said, “Hurrah for the pic¬ 
nic!” 

Tilly said, “Hurrah, we will pack a 
lunch for the picnic!” 

Old Mother Treasure said, “I am 
glad I saved last year’s picnic bask¬ 
ets.” 


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Old Uncle Thrift said: 

“Put on your old things, goodness knows, 
A picnic is very hard on clothes.” 

Teddy wore his old shirt and over¬ 
alls, and Tilly wore her old dress and 
apron, and they both put on old shoes 
for tramping. 

On their way to the picnic they met 
many Mother Goose children. Lucy 
Locket was looking for her lost pocket 
and Old Mother Treasure said: 

“If you had been a daughter of mine, 

You’d have sewed it in, and saved time.” 

The Twins went on their way sing¬ 
ing: 

“Lucy Locket, Lucy Locket, 

Looking for her lost pocket!” 




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They next met Betty Blue who had 
lost her holiday shoe, so the Twins 
were glad they had worn old shoes to 
the picnic, and that they had all the 
buttons on them. 

They had a wonderful time at the 
picnic that day and Old Mother Treas¬ 
ure sat down in the center of a circle 
and gathered the children round her. 

They begged her to tell a story of 
course. 

She said: 

“I’ll begin if nobody cares, 

To tell of the coat Uncle Thrift wears.” 

She said, “We ought to be very sav¬ 
ing of our clothes when we stop to 
think how many things are used to 
make them.” 




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Uncle Thrift said slyly: 

“Long ago the cloth was sold, 

That made my coat so worn and old.” 

Old Mother Treasure looked at him 
over her spectacles and said: 

“T his thing you all know, I presume, 

The cloth was woven on a loom.” 

Old Uncle Thrift could not keep still 
to save his life, so he remarked: 

“We all heard what Mother Treasure said, 
But to weave on the loom we must have 
thread.” 

“Who is telling this story?” in¬ 
quired Old Mother Treasure, and the 
children laughed as she continued: 

“The thread was made of wool, you know, 
Carded and spun so long ago.” 




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Uncle Thrift said: 

“I don’t know how to quiet keep, 

When I think how the wool grew on the 
sheep; 

When you know all this don’t you propose 
To take good care of all your clothes?” 


All the children were thoughtful and 
the Twins said, “We ought indeed to 
take good care of our clothes because 
of the trouble required to make them, 
and the money they cost. We should 
pass them on to poor children when we 
have no further use for them.” 


Teddy said: 

“We think from what we learned today. 

We should never throw old clothes away.” 




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Tilly said: 

“Thrifty Children soon discover 
They can make their old clothes over.” 

Then they talked about wearing 
proper clothes for certain occasions. 
They said for a picnic we should wear old 
clothes, for school we always wanted 
to look neat, but we should be plainly 
dressed. For Sunday school and par¬ 
ties we should wear our better clothes. 

They had an interesting talk about 
climate and how it affected people in 
the matter of dress. 

They compared the costume worn 
by the South Sea Islander with that 
of the Eskimo, and they talked for a 
good while telling from what sources 
our clothing is obtained. 




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Old Uncle Thrift said : 

“A Thrifty child wherever he goes, 

Will be quite saving of his clothes.” 

He talked about hats and collars 
made of paper, and paper dresses made 
for fancy dress parties. 

The boys, at his suggestion, put on 
paper bag caps and went through a 
fancy drill. 

The Twins said when they got home 
from school every day, they would 
change their clothes and put on old 
ones to play in. 

Little Sir Brag, and Little Miss 
Boaster, quite turned up their noses 
at this, but they had much to learn 




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and might some day come to want, 
and we know that the Treasure Twins 
were right. 

That evening when they got home 
from the picnic they drew pictures of 
their clothes. They first drew a pic¬ 
ture of a coat and wrote under it: 

“You’d save your coat, or I mistake it, 

If you knew what was required to make it.” 

They drew a picture of a dress and 
wrote under it: 

“In rhyme some thoughts we will express, 
Please do be careful of your dress.” 

Under a drawing of a hat they wrote: 

“Save your hat or we’re afraid, 

Some day you may lack its shade.” 

Under a drawing of shoes they wrote: 

“Keep us dry, it is worth while, 

For we carry you many a mile.” 




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The Twins said some day they would 
find out how every article of clothing 
was made that they wore, and then 
they would be more thrifty. They 
sang merrily: 

“Every child as I suppose, 

Really wants to save his clothes; 

So these lessons learn with me, 

Then a Thrifty child you’ll be.” 




The Bright Fire 


One fall day Old Mother Treasure 
sat knitting and singing: 

“A little fire as I remember, 

Is very welcome in November.” 


Old Uncle Thrift brought in an arm 
full of twigs he had gathered from the 
yard and the Twins brought in a bas¬ 
ket of pine cones. Soon they had a 
bright fire in the grate made of ma¬ 
terial that otherwise might have been 
wasted. 

Old Uncle Thrift said: 


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“When you think, is it not cruel, 

For any one to waste his fuel?” 

He said we should be very saving of 
fuel for some people really suffered as 
they did not have enough wood or 
coal to keep them warm. 

Old Mother Treasure said: 

“Let’s spread the news o’er all creation, 

We must save to be a thrifty nation.” 

She said we need not keep our houses 
so warm and we would use less fuel if 
we dressed warmer and took more ex¬ 
ercise. 

By and by Old Mother Treasure 
went out to make a call and Old Uncle 
Thrift went out to chop wood, and 


























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Teddy and Tilly were left alone by the 
open fire. To their surprise a Fire 
Sprite sat on a log and said: 

“I really wonder what you mean, 

When you don’t keep your grate quite 
clean.” 

Sure enough, the ashes were piled 
on the grate, and under the grate, so 
it was difficult to make the fire burn. 
The Fire Sprite continued: 

“Sometimes I think I will expire 
With ashes in the furnace fire; 

Ashes! my, how they provoke me! 

I really think that they will choke me; 

So many people do not care, 

That a fire needs fresh air.” 

At this, Teddy Treasure looked 
guilty for it was his place to take up 




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ashes, and Tilly Treasure looked 
ashamed for it was her duty to air 
the house, and they did sometimes 
forget to do their little tasks. 


The Fire Sprite said: 

“People would use self-control 
If they had to mine the coal; 

Do you know kinds of coal by name, 
And can you tell me whence it came? 
Do you know in the coal mines deep, 
Miners are working while we sleep?” 


The little Fire Sprite vanished as 
suddenly as he had come and the 
children went into the kitchen and 
turned on the gas to have a kettle of 
water boiling for tea. 




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They wanted to have a cup of tea 
ready when Old Mother Treasure and 
Uncle Thrift came in. 

It was Tilly’s duty to keep the 
kitchen tidy and clean. Imagine her 
surprise when she heard a voice say: 

“Put out my light, put out my light, 

I am not ready to serve you, quite.” 

The gas sputtered and sent up a 
red flame, so Tilly turned it off and 
washed the gas plate with soap and 
water and dried it thoroughly, then 
when she turned on the gas it burned 
steadily and the Gas Sprite sang: 

“Live and learn—live and learn, 

Cleanliness helps to make us burn; 

When you start a fire, lad and lass, 

Turn down the gas—turn down the gas.” 




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87 


Tilly turned down the gas and still 
there was enough flame to make the 
tea kettle sing merrily. After turn¬ 
ing on the gas we can save a little 
by turning it down. 

The Gas Sprite sang: 

“You’d always listen to what I say, 

If the gas bills you had to pay; 

Be thrifty—hark to what I say, 

Save your fuel every day.” 


Tilly and Teddy were going to leave 
the room when the Gas Sprite sang: 

“Hear the Gas Sprite sing and shout, 

Turn the gas out, turn the gas out; 

Some joys of life are never tasted, 

Because so many things are wasted.’ 




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Teddy next ran and cleaned the 
ashes out of the grate and said: 


“I agree with the Fire Sprite today, 

It is often as pleasant to work as play.” 

Soon he had a clean, shining grate 
and laid a new fire in it. 

When Old Mother Treasure came 
home the Thrift Twins called Uncle 
Thrift to come in, for they had a cup 
of tea ready for every one. 

Old Uncle Thrift told them stories 
of long ago about Robinson Crusoe 
making fire of drift-wood, about In¬ 
dians making fires, and Pilgrims liv¬ 
ing in the woods long ago. 




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89 


He told them stories of hunters long 
ago starting a fire with flint and steel. 

All these things the Treasure Twins 
found very interesting and they said: 

“So many interesting things you mention, 
Saving now comes to our attention.” 

They said in the future they would 
try to save wood and coal and gas. 

Old Uncle Thrift said: 

“We will be a thrifty nation, 

When we all learn conservation.” 

Old Mother Treasure said between 
the click, click, click of her busy nee¬ 
dles, “What other things shall we 
teach the Twins to save?” 

Suddenly they clapped their hands 
and said in one breath: 




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“We wonder if we have guessed right, 

You can teach about Saving Light.” 

Old Uncle Thrift nodded his head 
and Old Mother Treasure’s needles 
seemed to sing: 

“Some people are wasting coal and gas, 
Some people will never save, alas! 

But Thrift Town people sing and say, 
‘We’ll save a little every day.’ 

If thrift habits you desire, 

Save the fuel for more fire; 

Every happy Thrift child sings, 

‘I’ve learned to save in little things’.” 




The Light Fairy. 


One evening Teddy and Tilly Treas¬ 
ure sat up late to read an interesting 
book, and the Family Clock sang: 

“Tick, tick, tock, I’ve often said, 

Tick, tick, tock, time for bed.” 


Then the hands of the Family Clock 
pointed to ten o’clock, quarter past 
ten, half past ten, and eleven, but still 
the Twins read on. 


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Suddenly a little voice called: 

“I am the Fairy in the light, 

It is time to say ‘Good night’.” 

The Twins looked up and saw a 
lovely little Fairy sitting on top of the 
electric light. 

They closed their story book so sud¬ 
denly that they forgot to even put a 
mark in it. 

The Fairy said: 

“Little Treasure Twins, I’m glad I’ve spoken, 
And I will know you by this token; 

You both have manners most polite, 

When I speak of saving light.” 

“Dear me,” said Teddy, “We were 
going to try to save light and then 
forgot all about it.” 





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“Do tell us some ways of saving 
light,” said Tilly. 

The Light Fairy responded: 

“It will be more useful without a doubt, 

If by yourself you find things out.” 

Teddy looked at Tilly, and Tilly 
looked at Teddy, and they said, “We 
do really want to study ways of saving 
light.” 

Teddy thought some time longer 
and then he said: 

“This thing is surely in our power, 

To do things in the daylight hours.” 

The Twins remembered they had 
many hours of good light in which to 
do their reading, and if they read all 




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they wanted to, in the day time, they 
could save gas or electric light or lamp 
light, whichever they read by. 

Tilly remembered she had passed 
many houses where the light was high 
in the ceiling, and she said, “It would 
be more thrifty if every one would have 
a light low down in the middle of the 
room where all the family could gather 
round it. 

The children were surprised to see 
two tall figures enter. They were 
dressed in white, and said: 

“We’re the Tallow Dip Candles of long ago. 
You are not very saving, oh, no, no. 

In the old days we were thrifty quite, 

And with a snuffer put out the light.” 




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In then walked a funny figure 
dressed like a snuffer used to put out 
candles long ago. 

The Snuffer spoke very clearly and 
quoted a verse from Shakespeare, say¬ 
ing: 


“How far that candle throws his beams, 

So shines a good deed in a naughty world.” 

After this the strange visitor disap¬ 
peared. 

At this very minute Old Mother 
Treasure called: 

“Children dear, it grows late, quite, 

Did you turn out the hall light?” 

The Light Fairy capered about and 
sang: 




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“The light in the cellar, the light in the hall, 
Ho, ho, can you not remember at all? 

You are Twins who try to do right, 

Ha, ha, ho, ho, please turn out the light.” 

The children ran to see and sure 
enough, they had left the cellar light 
on early in the evening and it was 
still burning. 

The Light Fairy said: 

“Little Treasure Twins it now appears, 

You must practice saving for years and 
years; 

Try to remember with all your might, 
When not in use, turn out the light.” 

Uncle Thrift then called the Twins 
and said: 

“The Sun is really a friend of man, 

Let’s approve of the Daylight Saving Plan.” 




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He spoke of the use of sunlight the 
world over and asked the children if 
they could name the longest and short¬ 
est day in the year. 

He told them many interesting 
things about the use of reflectors on 
engines and in light houses, and the 
Twins were glad to hear all he had to 
say. 

As the next day was rainy and they 
had to amuse themselves indoors, they 
drew pictures of different kinds of 
lights and wrote cute little sayings 
under the pictures. 

They made a picture of a lantern. 

Under this picture they wrote, 
“Waste not, want not.” 




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99 


Under the picture of a candle they 
wrote, “Do not burn me at both ends.” 

Under the picture of a light house 
they wrote: 

“I will burn from night ’till morning, 

So as to give the sailors warning.” 

Under a picture of an electric light 
they wrote: 

“When you settle down at night, 

Be careful to turn off the light.” 

The Twins said they never could 
remember when the cellar light was 
on or off, so Uncle Thrift wrote a card 
“On and Off,” and fastened it to the 
electric button they used to turn the 
light on and off. 




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The children learned a song about 
Saving Light, and sang it to the tune 
of “Coming Through the Rye.” 

If you ever chance to travel 
To Thrift Town today, 

Please observe us saving lights, 

We know no better way. 

Let’s rise early then each morning. 

Friendly is the sun, 

So we give you all fair warning, 

Day’s work has begun.” 

“Rap-a-tap,” went Uncle Thrift’s 
hammer. He was busy in his work¬ 
shop. He said: 

“Tomorrow I’ll tell good girls and boys, 
Something new about saving toys; 

So many things we all discover, 

We can save by mending over and over.” 




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Friendly Is the Sun 


Teddy and Tilly said: 

“Saving will keep us from much sorrow, 
Let’s visit your toy shop here tomorrow; 
We hope you’ll call the Twins bright, 

We liked our lesson on saving light.” 

Uncle Thrift nodded his wise old 
head and said: 

“Everything must take its turn, 

Children have so much to learn; 

So in capital letters write, 

Please be thoughtful — SAVE YOUR 
LIGHT.” 






All Things. 


“Rap-a-tap,” went Uncle Thrift’s 
cane on the floor in the store room. 
He sang as he looked at the Twins 
broken toys: 

“Old Uncle Thrift sings to himself, 

Who will mend the toys upon the shelf?” 

At this very minute Old Mother 
Treasure appeared with her blue check¬ 
ed apron on, and a rolling pin in her 
hand, for she was getting ready for 
Thanksgiving dinner. She called: 


“Who will plan to stop their play, 

To get cranberries for Thanksgiving Day?” 


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Tilly answered, looking mournfully 
at her skates: 

“I’d go on my skates but a buckle is lost; 

I wonder what a new buckle would cost.” 

Old Uncle Thrift said, as if talking 
to himself: 

“Most every trouble would be ended 

If your things were only mended.” 

Tilly sat down at once to mend the 
broken buckle. 

Old Mother Treasure smiled but saw 
no way of getting her cranberries for 
Thanksgiving Day, so she said: 

“Who is going to help me, pray, 

Get cranberries for Thanksgiving Day?” 




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Teddy replied: 

“I’d go upon my little cart, 

But the wheels are broken before I start.” 

Old Uncle Thrift said: 

“How much energy’s expended, 

On things that we should have mended.” 

Teddy sat down at once and began 
to tighten the wheels on his cart. 

Still Old Mother Treasure stood 
looking from one Twin to the other 
and Tilly said: 

“I’d go on my bicycle to town 
But one of the tires is broken down.” 

Teddy said: 

“On my stilts I’d hurry away, 

But one is broken, I’m sorry to say.” 




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Old Mother Thrift saw it was no 
use to mince matters so she put on 
her little table cover shawl, and her 
sun bonnet and taking her market 
basket on her arm went to get cran¬ 
berries for Thanksgiving Day. 

Old Uncle Thrift laid down his book 
and said: 


“If you are thrifty girls and boys, 

Now you’ll begin to mend your toys.” 

He got a bottle of glue, and paint, 
and brushes, and began to help in 
real earnest. He glued on dolls’ wigs, 
sewed on arms and legs. He repainted 
wooden soldiers and stood them up 
in a row on the shelf. He made a 




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whole spool family, and spool furni¬ 
ture. He cut out rounds of cardboard 
and pasted them on spools, for spool 
tables. (You can make spool furni¬ 
ture yourself.) 

Old Uncle Thrift made a Thrift 
Calendar out of brown paper used to 
wrap packages. The Twins wrote the 
numbers on it and on each leaf wrote 
a verse. They wrote: 


We will try to be thrifty very, 

In the month of January; 

For little birds we’ll save each crumb, 

For February soon will come. 

The Mad March Hare makes rhymes so 
funny, 




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Saying, “Save your time and save your 
money.” 

“Waste not, want not,” learn in school, 

Or you may turn out an April Fool; 

“Save every flower you find today,” 

Says merry, smiling, Mistress May; 

June says, “This lesson I have learned, 

A penny saved is a penny earned.” 

July says, “To help others with a care 
For the future with thrift prepare.” 

August says, “Try to save your health; 

It means more to you all than wealth.” 
Saving habits we’ll remember 
To put into practice in September. 

“Early to bed,” say over and over, 

In the bonnie month of October. 




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To learn this lesson now we haste, 

In November do save food waste; 

Let’s spread the word o’er all creation, 
In December we’re a Thrifty Nation. 


The Twins helped Uncle Thrift hang 
up the calendar in the kitchen. Be¬ 
side it they hung a little pad they had 
made out of margins clipped from a 
newspaper, and beside it they hung a 
pencil. 

This little pad was for Old Mother 
Treasure to use to write her list of 
supplies upon. This would save her 
from sending the Twins on one errand 
and then another, for every day she 
could make a complete list of all she 
wanted. 




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Old Uncle Thrift said: 

“We could all have pleasant days, 

If we would learn thrifty ways.” 

Just then Old Mother Treasure re¬ 
turned with her basket full of cran¬ 
berries for Thanksgiving Day. She 
sat down and began to rock to and 
fro, to and fro. She wiped her eyes 
with her handkerchief and said: 

“We cannot afford to buy new toys 
For the sick little girls and boys.” 

She told them she had visited a 
hospital and seen rows and rows of 
beds full of little pale-faced girls and 
boys. 




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Teddy said: 

“Though we had no sisters or brothers, 

It seems we mended our toys for others.” 

Tilly said: 

“Think of the toy soldiers all in a row, 
They will delight some child we know.” 

Very soon the Twins had toys and 
books they had helped Uncle Thrift 
mend, neatly packed in a basket and 
they took them to the hospital for the 
pale-faced children, and every child re¬ 
ceived a book and toy. 

The Twins said as they danced mer¬ 
rily homeward: 

“We are glad we live in Thrift Town, 

We mind not wearing a faded gown; 
Though we have no sisters and no brothers, 
We bring much happiness to others; 




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We will ask this question of girls and boys, 
‘Have you mended your books and toys?’ 
Perhaps you will meet Thrifty Rabbit, 

If you form a Thrifty Habit. 

I thought I heard Old Mother Treasure say 
Dinner is ready on Thanksgiving Day. 

Old Uncle Thrift says, ‘You’ll know no sor¬ 
row, 

If you save today and save tomorrow’.” 










The Merry Company. 

“Thrifty Rabbit, Thrifty Rabbit, 

Come and teach us Saving Habits; 

Thrifty Rabbit, in song and rhyme, 

You’re welcome now in every clime.” 

So sang the Twins one morning as 
they looked for the long-eared little 
fellow who was known as Thrifty Rab¬ 
bit. 


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Old Mother Treasure sat knitting 
away as usual, singing: 

“Click, click, click, my minutes go, 

I save every minute of time you know.” 

Old Uncle Thrift sat in a corner 
mending a broken kite, saying: 

“Many hard times will be ended 

When Thrifty people have things mended.” 

The Twins said: 

“Old Mother Treasure, we’ll follow your 
wishes, 

And save many hours by washing your 
dishes.” 

They went to work with a will and 
just as they had dried the last cup and 
saucer, “Patter, patter, patter,” sound- 




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ed little feet and Thrifty Rabbit came 
in sight, singing: 

“I’m Thrifty Rabbit, I’ve come to stay 
A year and a day, a year and a day.” 

The children hugged him and gave 
him a nice meal of cabbage and after 
that, he settled down for a while in 
Thrift Town, but he was joking about 
staying a year and a day I am sure. 

He taught all the children many use¬ 
ful things. 

He said we all could form Thrift 
Habits if we only tried, and if we all 
become thrifty and never wasted any¬ 
thing the world would be a happier 
and better place to live in. 




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He said to form any habit we should 
try to do the same thing at the same 
time, as much as possible. If a child 
received ap allowance on a certain day, 
he could form the habit of saving by 
putting aside a little money at once, 
when it came to him. 

Thrifty Rabbit said: 

“Careless habits we can mend, 

Think a minute before you spend.” 


He said we could save a good many 
pennies and dimes if we would not 
spend them in a hurry for the first 
thing we saw in a store window that 
we wanted. 




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Thrifty Rabbit said: 

“No Thrifty Child will ever shirk 
From Saving Habits by planning work.” 

Thrifty Rabbit was quite an artist, 
and he loved to draw pictures of him¬ 
self. He always drew his ears very 
long just for fun. He taught the 
children to make a booklet shaped 
like a Rabbit. Inside, on the first page 
they drew a picture of a dollar and 
wrote: 

The Thrifty Rabbit chirps and sings, 

“ We’re learning to save, every day things.” 

Then next, they drew a picture of a 
kite made of paper and string they 
had saved from packages that came 
into the house. 





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They drew next a picture of a clock 
and wrote under it: 

Said Thrifty Rabbit, in song and rhyme, 
“Please form the habit of Saving Time.” 

They drew cute little pictures of food 
too, served in pretty dishes and wrote 
under the pictures: 

Said Thrifty Rabbit, “If you are good, 

You will form the habit of Saving Food.” 

Thrifty Rabbit talked a long time 
about saving clothes and Teddy drew 
a picture of his old hat, and Tilly 
drew a picture of her old sunbonnet, 
and they wrote, under the pictures: 

Said Thrifty Rabbit, “Now I suppose, 
You’ll form the habit of saving clothes.” 




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Thrifty Rabbit talked to the chil¬ 
dren about wearing rubbers on wet days 
to save their shoes, and keep their feet 
dry so they would not take cold. He 
said we should all keep as perfect in 
health as possible, then they wrote: 

“Said Thrifty Rabbit, “Better than wealth, 
Is to form the habit of Saving Health.” 


They talked again some time about 
Saving Fuel, and about wearing warm 
clothes on a chilly day, and they all 
agreed it was thoughtless to waste 
what other people could use. 

The Twins drew a picture of a fire¬ 
place with andirons and wrote under 
it: 




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Said Thrifty Rabbit, “It is cruel 
In neglecting to save your fuel.” 

The Treasure Twins said, “We can 
draw some interesting pictures when 
we talk about saving light because so 
many different kinds of lights are used. 

Tilly finally drew a picture of a can¬ 
dle in an old-fashioned striped candle¬ 
stick and Teddy drew a picture of a 
lamp. Under their pictures they 
wrote: 

“Says Thrifty Rabbit, ‘If you are bright, 
You’ll form the habit of Saving Light’.” 

The last picture they made was very 
interesting. They drew a whole shelf 
full of toys and colored them, and 
wrote: 




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“Says Thrifty Rabbit, ‘Most girls and boys 
Can form the habit of saving toys’.” 

Old Mother Treasure and Old Uncle 
Thrift thought the Thrift Books that 
the Twins made were very interesting, 
and Old Mother Treasure wrote on 
one of the remaining pages: 

“Old Mother Treasure in her arm chair 
sitting, 

So busily is knitting, knitting, 

And she employs each moment flitting 
In Thrift Town.” 

Old Uncle Thrift looked over her 
shoulder and thought some time, then 
he wrote: 

“Old Uncle Thrift has ready wit, 

And so he makes a rhyme to fit; 

He tells you all to save-a-bit, 

In Thrift Town.” 




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The Thrifty Rabbit wrote: 

“Says Thrifty Rabbit to all good-bye, 

For my advice you’ll often sigh; 

To be thrifty we mean to try, 

In Thrift Town.” 

The Treasure Twins wrote on the 
last page: 

“The Treasure Twins have much work to do, 
We’re always learning lessons new; 

And so we say good-bye to you, 

In Thrift Town.” 

They all joined hands and danced 
and sang: 

“Who are we? Who are we? 

Thrifty people you’ll agree; 

Treasure Twins in every clime, 

Sing merrily with song and rhyme.” 




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They were such a merry company 
and for all I know they are dancing 
and singing yet! 


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